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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>55081</law_id><section_number>18.2-505</section_number><catch_line>Preparation, etc., of papers to be submitted for academic credit</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>18.2-507</reference><reference>18.2-508</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="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 prepare, cause to be prepared or sell any term paper, thesis, dissertation or other written <span class="dictionary">material</span> for another person, for profit, with the knowledge, or under circumstances in which he should reasonably have known, that such term paper, thesis, dissertation or other written <span class="dictionary">material</span> is to be submitted by any other person for academic credit at any public or private institution of higher education in the Commonwealth. <a id="paragraph-202006" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-505/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> No person shall make or disseminate, with the <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to induce any other person to enter into any obligation relating thereto, any statement, written or oral, that he will prepare or cause to be prepared, any term paper, thesis, dissertation or other written <span class="dictionary">material</span>, to be sold for profit, for or on behalf of any person who has been assigned the written preparation of such term paper, thesis, dissertation or other written <span class="dictionary">material</span> for academic credit at any public or private institution of higher education in the Commonwealth. <a id="paragraph-202007" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-505/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-371.1; 1974, c. 342; 1975, cc. 14, 15.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
