                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ADVANCES SECURED BY FRAUDULENT PROMISE TO PERFORM AGRICULTURAL LABOR (§
18.2-201)

If any person enter into a contract of employment, oral or written, for the
performance of personal service to be rendered within one year, in and about the
cultivation of the soil, and, at any time during the pendency of such contract,
thereby obtain from the landowner, or the person so engaged in the cultivation
of the soil, advances of money or other thing of value under such contract, with
intent to injure or defraud his employer, and fraudulently refuses or fails to
perform such service or to refund such money or other thing of value so
obtained, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. But no prosecution
hereunder shall be commenced more than sixty days after the breach of such
contract.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-114; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.