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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?951+ful+CHAP0772\">772<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?951+ful+CHAP0826\">826<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 2000, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?001+ful+CHAP0830\">830<\/a>; in 2002, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?021+ful+CHAP0747\">747<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":271449,"object_type":"law","relational_id":55297,"identifier":"63.2-1217","token":"63.2\/III\/12\/1\/63.2-1217","url":"\/63.2-1217\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/63.2-1217\/","token":"63.2\/III\/12\/1\/63.2-1217","dublin_core":{"Title":"Provision of false information; penalty","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 63.2-1217","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Any person who knowingly and intentionally provides false information in writing and under <span class=\"dictionary\">oath<\/span>, which is <span class=\"dictionary\">material<\/span> to an <span class=\"dictionary\">adoptive placement<\/span> shall be guilty of a Class 6 <span class=\"dictionary\">felony<\/span>. 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