                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

UNLAWFUL PROCUREMENT OF CERTIFICATE, LICENSE, OR PERMIT; UNAUTHORIZED POSSESSION
OF EXAMINATION OR ANSWERS; UNLAWFUL DISTRIBUTION OF FALSE OPERATOR&#8217;S
LICENSE; PENALTY (§ 46.2-105.1)

A. It shall be unlawful:

   1. For any person to procure, or assist another to procure, through theft,
   fraud, or other illegal means, a certificate, license, or permit, from the
   Department;

   2. For any person, other than an authorized agent of the Department, to
   procure or have in his possession or furnish to another person, prior to the
   beginning of an examination, any question intended to be used by the
   Department in conducting an examination;

   3. For any person to receive or furnish to any person taking an examination,
   prior to or during an examination, any written or printed material purporting
   to be answers to questions intended to be used by the Department in conducting
   an examination;

   4. For any person to communicate by any means to any person taking an
   examination, during an examination, any information purporting to be answers
   to questions intended to be used by the Department in conducting an
   examination;

   5. For any person to attempt to procure, through theft, fraud or other illegal
   means, any questions intended to be used by the Department in conducting an
   examination, or the answers to the questions; or

   6. To promise or offer any valuable or other consideration to a person having
   access to the questions or answers as an inducement to procure for delivery to
   the promisor, or any other person, a copy or copies of any questions or
   answers.

B. If an examination is divided into separate parts, each of the parts shall be
deemed an examination for the purposes of this section.

C. Any violation of any provision of subsection A of this section shall be
punishable as a Class 2 misdemeanor.

D. Any person or entity other than the Department that sells, gives, or
distributes, or attempts to sell, give or distribute any document purporting to
be a license to operate a motor vehicle in the Commonwealth is guilty of a Class
1 misdemeanor.

E. Nothing in this section or in any regulations of the Department shall be
construed to prohibit (i) the possession, use, or provision of the
Department&#8217;s driver license examination questions by or to any person for
the purpose of administering a knowledge examination or (ii) the Department from
making sample examination questions available to the public or the public from
possessing sample examination questions.

HISTORY: 1990, c. 964; 2006, c. 871; 2015, c. 464; 2022, c. 139.