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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72737</law_id><section_number>18.2-207</section_number><catch_line>Making false entry, etc., in marriage register, etc</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>If any clerk of a <span class="dictionary">court</span>, commissioner of the revenue, physician, surgeon, medical examiner or minister celebrating a marriage, or clerk or keeper of the records of any religious society, shall, in any book, register, record, certificate or copy which such person is by Title 20 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="License and solemnization required" href="/20-13/">20-13</a> et seq.) required to keep, make, or give, knowingly make any false, erroneous, or fraudulent entry, record, registration, or written statement, he shall, for every such <span class="dictionary">offense</span>, be guilty of a Class 3 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-98; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
