                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FAILURE TO PERFORM PROMISE FOR CONSTRUCTION, ETC., IN RETURN FOR ADVANCES (§
18.2-200.1)

If any person obtain from another an advance of money, merchandise or other
thing, of value, with fraudulent intent, upon a promise to perform construction,
removal, repair or improvement of any building or structure permanently annexed
to real property, or any other improvements to such real property, including
horticulture, nursery or forest products, and fail or refuse to perform such
promise, and also fail to substantially make good such advance, he shall be
deemed guilty of the larceny of such money, merchandise or other thing if he
fails to return such advance within fifteen days of a request to do so sent by
certified mail, return receipt requested, to his last known address or to the
address listed in the contract.

HISTORY: 1980, c. 459; 1987, c. 358.