                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

INTERFERENCE WITH EMPLOYMENT OF MEMBERS OF VIRGINIA NATIONAL GUARD OR VIRGINIA
DEFENSE FORCE (§ 44-98)

A person who, either by himself or with another, deprives a member of the
Virginia National Guard or Virginia Defense Force of his employment, or
prevents, by himself or another, such member being employed, or obstructs or
annoys such member or his employer at his trade, business, or employment,
because such member of such organization is such member, or dissuades any person
from enlistment in the Virginia National Guard or Virginia Defense Force by
threat or injury to him in his trade, business, or employment in case he shall
so enlist, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be
fined in a sum not exceeding $500, or imprisonment in jail not more than 30
days, or shall suffer both fine and imprisonment.

HISTORY: 1930, p. 967; Michie Code 1942, § 2673(83); 1958, c. 393; 1984, c.
765; 2011, cc. 572, 586; 2015, c. 221.