                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PUNISHMENT FOR VIOLATION OF SUCH PROHIBITION; LEAVING COMMONWEALTH TO AVOID (§
20-40)

If any person marry in violation of § 20-38.1, he shall be confined in jail not
exceeding six months, or fined not exceeding $500, in the discretion of the
jury. If any persons, resident in the Commonwealth and within the degrees of
relationship mentioned in that section, shall go out of the Commonwealth for the
purpose of being married, and with the intention of returning, and be married
out of it, and afterwards return to and reside in it, cohabiting as a married
couple, they shall be punished as provided in this section, and the marriage
shall be governed by the same law as if it had been solemnized in the
Commonwealth. The fact of such cohabitation here shall be evidence of such
marriage. Venue for a violation of this section may be in the county or city
where the subsequent marriage occurred or where the parties to the subsequent
marriage cohabited.

HISTORY: Code 1919, §§ 4540, 5089; 1976, c. 356; 2003, c. 99; 2020, c. 900.