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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58163</law_id><section_number>63.2-522</section_number><catch_line>False statements, representations, impersonations and fraudulent devices; penalty</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>63.2-513</reference><reference>63.2-525</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="63.2">Welfare (Social Services)</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Public Assistance</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="5">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Whoever obtains, or attempts to obtain, or aids or abets any person in obtaining, by means of a willful false statement or representation, or by impersonation, or other fraudulent device, <span class="dictionary">public assistance</span> or benefits from other programs designated under regulations of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>, State <span class="dictionary">Board</span> of Health or the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> of Medical Assistance Services to which he is not entitled or who fails to comply with the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Notification of change in circumstances" href="/63.2-513/">63.2-513</a> is guilty of <span class="dictionary">larceny</span>. It shall be the duty of the <span class="dictionary">local director</span>, the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> of Health or the Director of the Department of Medical Assistance Services to investigate alleged violations and enforce the provisions of this section. A warrant or <span class="dictionary">summons</span> may be issued for each violation of which the <span class="dictionary">local director</span>, the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> of Health or the Director of the Department of Medical Assistance Services has knowledge. The <span class="dictionary">local director</span>, the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> or the Director shall ensure that the attorney for the Commonwealth is notified of any investigation or alleged violation under this section. <span class="dictionary">Trial</span> for violations of this section shall be in the county or city from whose <span class="dictionary">local department</span> assistance was sought or obtained.
		In any <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span> under the provisions of this section, it shall be lawful and sufficient in the same <span class="dictionary">indictment</span> or accusation to charge and therein to proceed against the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> for any number of distinct acts of such false statements, representations, impersonations or fraudulent devices that may have been committed by him within six months from the first to the last of the acts charged in the <span class="dictionary">indictment</span> or accusation.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 63-137, 63-140.14, 63-159, 63-201, 63-217; 1952, c. 533; 1962, c. 621; 1968, c. 578, &#xA7; 63.1-124; 1972, c. 659; 1975, c. 207; 1978, cc. 535, 672; 1982, c. 282; 1984, c. 578; 1986, cc. 93, 551; 1995, c. 294; 2002, c. 747.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
