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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>70923</law_id><section_number>18.2-503</section_number><catch_line>Possession or duplication of certain keys</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="12">Miscellaneous</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Miscellaneous Offenses in General</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> No person shall knowingly possess any key to the lock of any building or other property owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia, or a department, division, agency or political subdivision thereof, without receiving permission from a person duly authorized to give such permission to possess such key. <a id="paragraph-255747" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-503/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> No person, without receiving permission from a person duly authorized to give such permission, shall knowingly duplicate, copy or make a facsimile of any key to a lock of a building or other property owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia, or a department, division, agency or political subdivision thereof.
			Violation of this section shall constitute a Class 3 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>. <a id="paragraph-255748" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-503/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-408.1; 1972, c. 139; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1984, c. 61.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
