                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHAT DEEMED PERJURY; PUNISHMENT AND PENALTY (§ 18.2-434)

If any person to whom an oath is lawfully administered on any occasion willfully
swears falsely on such occasion touching any material matter or thing, or if a
person falsely make oath that any other person is 18 years of age or older in
order to obtain a marriage license for such other person, or if any person in
any written declaration, certificate, verification, or statement under penalty
of perjury pursuant to § 8.01-4.3 willfully subscribes as true any material
matter which he does not believe is true, he is guilty of perjury, punishable as
a Class 5 felony. Upon the conviction of any person for perjury, such person
thereby shall be adjudged forever incapable of holding any office of honor,
profit or trust under the Constitution of Virginia, or of serving as a juror.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 18.1-273 through 18.1-275; 1960, c. 358; 1972, c. 823;
1975, cc. 14, 15; 2005, c. 423.