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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86425</law_id><section_number>18.2-204</section_number><catch_line>False statement for the purpose of defrauding industrial sick benefit company</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="6">Crimes Involving Fraud</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="7">Miscellaneous False and Fraudulent Acts</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any agent, physician or other person who shall knowingly or willfully make any false or fraudulent statement or representation of any <span class="dictionary">material</span> <span class="dictionary">fact</span>:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> In or with reference to any application for insurance in any industrial sick benefit company licensed, or which may be licensed, to do business in this Commonwealth, <a id="paragraph-309554" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-204/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> As to the death or disability of a policy or certificate holder in any such company, <a id="paragraph-309555" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-204/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> For the purpose of procuring or attempting to procure the payment of any false or fraudulent claim against any such company, or <a id="paragraph-309556" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-204/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> For the purpose of obtaining or attempting to obtain any money from or benefit in any such company,
			shall be guilty of a Class 3 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.
			Any such person who shall willfully make a false statement of any <span class="dictionary">material</span> <span class="dictionary">fact</span> or thing in a sworn statement as to the death or disability of a policy or certificate holder in any such company for the purpose of procuring payment of a benefit named in the policy or certificate of such holder, shall be guilty of <span class="dictionary">perjury</span>, and shall be proceeded against and punished as provided by the <span class="dictionary">statutes</span> of this Commonwealth in relation to the <span class="dictionary">crime</span> of <span class="dictionary">perjury</span>. <a id="paragraph-309557" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-204/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-122; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
