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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>81187</law_id><section_number>18.2-380</section_number><catch_line>Punishment for first offense</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="8">Crimes Involving Morals and Decency</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="5">Obscenity and Related Offenses</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any person, firm, association or corporation convicted for the first time of an <span class="dictionary">offense</span> under &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Production, publication, sale, possession, etc., of obscene items" href="/18.2-374/">18.2-374</a>, <a class="law" title="Obscene exhibitions and performances" href="/18.2-375/">18.2-375</a>, <a class="law" title="Advertising, etc., obscene items, exhibitions or performances" href="/18.2-376/">18.2-376</a>, <a class="law" title="Placards, posters, bills, etc" href="/18.2-377/">18.2-377</a>, <a class="law" title="Coercing acceptance of obscene articles or publications" href="/18.2-378/">18.2-378</a> or &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Employing or permitting minor to assist in offense under article" href="/18.2-379/">18.2-379</a>, shall be guilty of a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-235.1; 1968, c. 662; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1983, c. 412; 1985, c. 279.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
