                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PENALTY IMPOSED FOR VIOLATIONS (§ 32.1-276)

Any person who commits any of the following acts is guilty of a Class 4 felony:

1. Who willfully and knowingly makes any false statement in a report, record, or
certificate required to be filed under this chapter, or in an application for an
amendment, certification or verification of any such report, record or
certificate, or who willfully and knowingly supplies false information intending
that such information be used in the preparation of any such report, record, or
certificate, or amendment thereof; or

2. Who without lawful authority and with the intent to deceive, makes,
counterfeits, alters, amends, or mutilates any report, record, or certificate
required to be filed under this chapter or a certified copy of such report,
record, or certificate; or

3. [Repealed.]

4. Who willfully and knowingly obtains, possesses, uses, sells, furnishes or
attempts to obtain, possess, use, sell, or furnish to another, for any purpose
of deception, any certificate, record or report required by this chapter or
certified copy thereof made, counterfeited, altered, amended, or mutilated or
which is false in whole or part or which relates to the birth of another person
whether living or deceased without lawful authority; or

5. [Repealed.]

6. Who is an employee of the State Registrar, the Department of Health, or the
Department of Motor Vehicles while engaged in activities pertaining to the
operation of the system of vital records who, without lawful authority,
willfully and knowingly furnishes or possesses any certificate, report, record,
or certification thereof, with the knowledge or intention that it be used for
the purposes of deception; or

7. Who, without lawful authority, possesses any certificate, record, or report
required by this chapter or a copy or certification of such certificate, record,
or report knowing same to have been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 32-353.31; 1960, c. 451; 1979, c. 711; 1983, c. 240;
2013, c. 534.