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This law was first created in 1981. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 632 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. Unfortunately, the 1981 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. 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. That modification is as follows: in 2001, chapter 844<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":60081,"section_number":"19.2-387","catch_line":"Exchange to operate as a division of Department of State Police; authority of Superintendent of State Police","order_by":null,"url":"\/19.2-387\/"}],"permalink":{"id":284863,"object_type":"law","relational_id":84910,"identifier":"9.1-136","token":"9.1\/1\/3\/9.1-136","url":"\/9.1-136\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/9.1-136\/","token":"9.1\/1\/3\/9.1-136","dublin_core":{"Title":"Criminal penalty for violation","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 9.1-136","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Any person who willfully and intentionally requests, obtains, or seeks to obtain criminal history record information<\/span> under false pretenses<\/span>, or who willfully and intentionally disseminates or seeks to disseminate criminal history record information<\/span> to any agency or person in violation of this article or Chapter 23 (\u00a7 19.2-387<\/a> et seq.) of Title 19.2, shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor<\/span>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCRIMINAL PENALTY FOR VIOLATION (\u00a7 9.1-136)\n\nAny person who willfully and intentionally requests, obtains, or seeks to obtain\ncriminal history record information under false pretenses, or who willfully and\nintentionally disseminates or seeks to disseminate criminal history record\ninformation to any agency or person in violation of this article or Chapter 23\n(\u00a7 19.2-387 et seq.) of Title 19.2, shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.\n\nHISTORY: 1981, c. 632, \u00a7 9-195; 2001, c. 844.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}