                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LARCENY OF BANK NOTES, CHECKS, ETC., OR ANY BOOK OF ACCOUNTS (§ 18.2-98)

If any person steal any bank note, check, or other writing or paper of value,
whether the same represents money and passes as currency, or otherwise, or any
book of accounts, for or concerning money or goods due or to be delivered, he
shall be deemed guilty of larceny thereof, and may be charged for such larceny
under § 18.2-95 or 18.2-96, and if convicted shall receive the same punishment,
according to the value of the thing stolen, prescribed for the punishment of the
larceny of goods and chattels. The provisions of this section shall be construed
to embrace all bank notes and papers of value representing money and passing as
currency, whether the same be the issue of this Commonwealth or any other state,
or of the United States, or of any corporation, and shall include all other
papers of value, of whatever description. In a prosecution under this section,
the money due on or secured by the writing, paper or book, and remaining
unsatisfied, or which in any event might be collected thereon, or the value of
the property or money affected thereby, shall be deemed to be the value of the
article stolen.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 18.1-104, 18.1-105; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15;
2009, c. 591.