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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>68116</law_id><section_number>32.1-276</section_number><catch_line>Penalty imposed for violations</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>32.1-269.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="32.1">Health</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="7">Vital Records</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="7">Miscellaneous Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any <span class="dictionary">person</span> who commits any of the following acts is guilty of a Class 4 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Who willfully and knowingly makes any false statement in a report, record, or certificate required to be filed under this chapter, or in an application for an amendment, certification or verification of any such report, record or certificate, or who willfully and knowingly supplies false information intending that such information be used in the preparation of any such report, record, or certificate, or amendment thereof; or <a id="paragraph-246592" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-276/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Who without lawful authority and with the <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to deceive, makes, counterfeits, alters, <span class="dictionary">amends</span>, or mutilates any report, record, or certificate required to be filed under this chapter or a certified copy of such report, record, or certificate; or <a id="paragraph-246593" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-276/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> [Repealed.] <a id="paragraph-246594" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-276/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> Who willfully and knowingly obtains, possesses, uses, sells, furnishes or attempts to obtain, possess, use, sell, or furnish to another, for any purpose of deception, any certificate, record or report required by this chapter or certified copy thereof made, counterfeited, altered, amended, or mutilated or which is false in whole or part or which relates to the birth of another <span class="dictionary">person</span> whether living or deceased without lawful authority; or <a id="paragraph-246595" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-276/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="5"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> [Repealed.] <a id="paragraph-246596" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-276/#5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="6"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> Who is an employee of the State Registrar, the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Health, or the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Motor Vehicles while engaged in activities pertaining to the operation of the <span class="dictionary">system of vital records</span> who, without lawful authority, willfully and knowingly furnishes or possesses any certificate, report, record, or certification thereof, with the knowledge or intention that it be used for the purposes of deception; or <a id="paragraph-246597" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-276/#6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="7"><p><span class="prefix-number">7.</span> Who, without lawful authority, possesses any certificate, record, or report required by this chapter or a copy or certification of such certificate, record, or report knowing same to have been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained. <a id="paragraph-246598" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-276/#7"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 32-353.31; 1960, c. 451; 1979, c. 711; 1983, c. 240; 2013, c. 534.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
