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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>84112</law_id><section_number>18.2-209.1</section_number><catch_line>Penalties for false certificate or failure to give bond</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 id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> If any clerk make a certificate as to any <span class="dictionary">bond</span> of a special commissioner appointed under Article 11 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Decree for sale; how made; bond of commissioner" href="/8.01-96/">8.01-96</a> et seq.) of Chapter 3 of Title 8.01, knowing it to be false, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>, and shall, upon <span class="dictionary">conviction</span>, be removed from his office. <a id="paragraph-301425" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-209.1/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If any special commissioner appointed under Article 11 of Chapter 3 of Title 8.01 shall advertise property for sale or rent, and shall sell or rent the same before he shall have given <span class="dictionary">bond</span> as is required by &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Bond required of special commissioner for sale" href="/8.01-99/">8.01-99</a>, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>. <a id="paragraph-301426" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-209.1/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1978, c. 718.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
