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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76241</law_id><section_number>6.2-945</section_number><catch_line>Receiving deposit knowing bank to be insolvent; penalty</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="6.2">Financial Institutions and Services</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Depository Institutions and Trust Organizations</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="8">Banks</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="15">Banking Offenses</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Any officer, director. or employee of any <span class="dictionary">bank</span>, or broker, who takes and receives, or permits to be received, a deposit from any <span class="dictionary">person</span> with the actual knowledge that the <span class="dictionary">bank</span> or broker is at the time insolvent, is guilty of <span class="dictionary">embezzlement</span>. Notwithstanding the provisions of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Embezzlement deemed larceny; indictment" href="/18.2-111/">18.2-111</a>, an individual convicted of <span class="dictionary">embezzlement</span> pursuant to this section shall be fined double the amount so received and be subject to a term of imprisonment of not less than one nor more than three years, in the discretion of the <span class="dictionary">jury</span>, for each <span class="dictionary">offense</span>. <a id="paragraph-273737" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-945/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> On the <span class="dictionary">trial</span> of any <span class="dictionary">indictment</span> under this section, it shall be the duty of the <span class="dictionary">bank</span> or broker, and its agent or officers, to produce in <span class="dictionary">court</span>, on demand of the attorney for the Commonwealth, all books and papers of the <span class="dictionary">bank</span> or broker, to be read as <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> on the <span class="dictionary">trial</span> of such <span class="dictionary">indictment</span>. In determining the question of the solvency of any <span class="dictionary">bank</span>, the capital stock thereof shall not be considered as a liability due by it. <a id="paragraph-273738" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-945/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 6-3; 1966, c. 584, &#xA7; 6.1-124; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
