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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>84521</law_id><section_number>18.2-340.37</section_number><catch_line>Criminal penalties</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>18.2-340.24:1</reference></referred_to_by><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="8">Crimes Involving Morals and Decency</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1.1:1">Charitable Gaming</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Any person who violates the provisions of this article or who willfully and knowingly files, or causes to be filed, a false application, report or other document or who willfully and knowingly makes a false statement, or causes a false statement to be made, on any application, report or other document required to be filed with or made to the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall be guilty of a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>. <a id="paragraph-302910" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-340.37/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Each day in violation shall constitute a separate <span class="dictionary">offense</span>. <a id="paragraph-302911" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-340.37/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Any person who converts funds derived from any <span class="dictionary">charitable gaming</span> to his own or another&#x2019;s use, when the amount of funds is less than $1,000, shall be guilty of petit <span class="dictionary">larceny</span> and, when the amount of funds is $1,000 or more, shall be guilty of grand <span class="dictionary">larceny</span>. The provisions of this section shall not preclude the applicability of any other provision of the criminal <span class="dictionary">law</span> of the Commonwealth that may apply to any course of <span class="dictionary">conduct</span> that violates this section. <a id="paragraph-302912" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-340.37/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1995, c. 837; 1996, c. 919; 2003, c. 884; 2006, c. 644; 2018, cc. 764, 765; 2020, cc. 89, 401.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
