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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>78214</law_id><section_number>38.2-506</section_number><catch_line>False statements and entries</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>38.2-3456</reference><reference>38.2-5103</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="38.2">Insurance</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="5">Unfair Trade Practices</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No <span class="dictionary">person</span> shall:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Knowingly file with any supervisory or other public official, or knowingly make, publish, disseminate, circulate, or deliver to any <span class="dictionary">person</span>, or place before the public, or knowingly cause, directly or indirectly, to be made, published, disseminated, circulated, delivered to any <span class="dictionary">person</span>, or placed before the public, any false <span class="dictionary">material</span> statement of <span class="dictionary">fact</span> as to the financial condition of a <span class="dictionary">person</span>; or <a id="paragraph-280339" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-506/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Knowingly make any false entry of a <span class="dictionary">material</span> <span class="dictionary">fact</span> in any book, report or statement of any <span class="dictionary">person</span> or knowingly fail to make a true entry of any <span class="dictionary">material</span> <span class="dictionary">fact</span> pertaining to the business of any <span class="dictionary">person</span> in any book, report or statement of that <span class="dictionary">person</span>. <a id="paragraph-280340" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-506/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 38.1-52; 1952, c. 317, &#xA7; 38.1-52.5; 1977, c. 529; 1978, c. 441; 1979, c. 324; 1980, c. 404; 1986, c. 562.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
