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§ 18.2-434. What deemed perjury; punishment and penalty - If any person to whom an oath is lawfully administered...
§ 18.2-435. Giving conflicting testimony on separate occasions as to same matter; indictment; sufficiency of evidence - It shall likewise constitute perjury for any person, with the...
§ 18.2-436. Inducing another to give false testimony; sufficiency of evidence - If any person procure or induce another to commit perjury...
§ 18.2-437. Immunity of witnesses - No witness called by the attorney for the Commonwealth, or...
§ 18.2-438. Bribes to officers or candidates for office - If any person corruptly give, offer or promise to any...
§ 18.2-439. Acceptance of bribe by officer or candidate - If any executive, legislative or judicial officer, sheriff or police...
§ 18.2-440. Bribes to officers to prevent service of process - If any officer authorized to serve legal process receive any...
§ 18.2-441. Giving bribes to, or receiving bribes by, commissioners, jurors, etc. - If any person give, offer or promise to give any...
§ 18.2-441.1. Bribery of witnesses - If any person give, offer, or promise to give any...
§ 18.2-442. Bribery of participants in games, contests or sports - Whoever gives, promises or offers any valuable thing to any...
§ 18.2-443. Solicitation or acceptance of bribes by participants or by managers, coaches or trainers - A professional or amateur participant or prospective participant in any...
§ 18.2-444. Corruptly influencing, or being influenced as, agents, etc. - (1) Any person who gives, offers or promises to an...
§ 18.2-444.1. Reserved - Reserved.
§ 18.2-444.2. Giving or accepting a fee or gift for purposes of influencing decisions of financial institution - A. No officer, director, or employee of a financial institution...
§ 18.2-445. Immunity of witnesses - No witness called by the court or attorney for the...
§ 18.2-446. Definitions - The following words and phrases when used in this article...
§ 18.2-447. When person guilty of bribery - A person shall be guilty of bribery under the provisions...
§ 18.2-448. Certain matters not to constitute defenses - It shall be no defense to any prosecution under §...
§ 18.2-449. Punishment - Any person found guilty of bribery under the provisions of...
§ 18.2-450. Immunity of witnesses - No witness called by the court or attorney for the...
§ 18.2-451. Definitions; application and construction of article - (a) "Barratry" is the offense of stirring up litigation. (b)...
§ 18.2-452. Barratry unlawful - Any person, if an individual, who shall engage in barratry...
§ 18.2-453. Aiders and abettors - A person who aids and abets a barrator by giving...
§ 18.2-454. Enjoining barratry - Suits to enjoin barratry may be brought by the Attorney...
§ 18.2-455. Unprofessional conduct; revocation of license - Conduct that is made illegal by this article on the...
§ 18.2-456. Cases in which courts and judges may punish summarily for contempt - A. The courts and judges may issue attachments for contempt,...
§ 18.2-457. Fine and imprisonment by court limited unless jury impaneled - No court shall, without a jury, for any such contempt...
§ 18.2-458. Power of judge of district court to punish for contempt - A judge of a district court shall have the same...
§ 18.2-459. Appeal from sentence of such judge - Any person sentenced to pay a fine, or to confinement,...
§ 18.2-460. Obstructing justice; resisting arrest; fleeing from a law-enforcement officer; penalties - A. If any person without just cause knowingly obstructs a...
§ 18.2-460.1. Unlawful disclosure of existence of order authorizing wire or oral interception of communication - Except as provided in Chapter 6 (§ 19.2-61 et seq.)...
§ 18.2-461. Falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials - It shall be unlawful for any person (i) to knowingly...
§ 18.2-462. Concealing or compounding offenses; penalties - A. Except as provided in subsection B, if any person...
§ 18.2-462.1. Use of police radio during commission of crime - Any person who has in his possession or who uses...
§ 18.2-463. Refusal to aid officer in execution of his office - If any person on being required by any sheriff or...
§ 18.2-464. Failure to obey order of conservator of the peace - If any person, being required by a conservator of the...
§ 18.2-465. Officer summoning juror to act impartially - If any sheriff or other officer corruptly, or through favor...
§ 18.2-465.1. Penalizing employee for court appearance or service on jury panel - Any person who is summoned to serve on jury duty...
§ 18.2-466. Corruptly procuring juror to be summoned - If any person procure or attempt to procure a juror...
§ 18.2-467. Fraud in drawing jurors, etc. - If any person be guilty of any fraud, either by...
§ 18.2-468. Making sound recordings of jury deliberations - If any person shall install or cause to be installed...
§ 18.2-469. Officer refusing, delaying, etc., to execute process for criminal - If any officer willfully and corruptly refuse to execute any...
§ 18.2-470. Extortion by officer - If any officer, for performing an official duty for which...
§ 18.2-471. Fraudulent issue of fee bills - If any person authorized by law to charge fees for...
§ 18.2-471.1. Destruction of human biological evidence; penalty - Any clerk of court or other public official who willfully...
§ 18.2-472. False entries or destruction of records by officers - If a clerk of any court or other public officer...
§ 18.2-472.1. Providing false information or failing to provide registration information; penalty; prima facie evidence - A. Any person subject to Chapter 9 (§ 9.1-900 et...
§ 18.2-473. Persons aiding escape of prisoner or child - When a person is lawfully detained as a prisoner in...
§ 18.2-473.1. Communication with prisoners or committed person; penalty - It shall be unlawful for any person outside of any...
§ 18.2-473.2. Covering a security camera in a correctional facility; penalty - A. As used in this section, "security camera" means an...
§ 18.2-474. Delivery of articles to prisoners or committed person - No person shall willfully in any manner deliver, or attempt...
§ 18.2-474.1. Delivery of drugs, firearms, explosives, etc., to prisoners or committed persons - Notwithstanding the provisions of § 18.2-474, any person who shall...
§ 18.2-474.2. Bribery in correctional facilities; penalty - A. Any person who receives any pecuniary benefit or other...
§ 18.2-475. Officers, etc., voluntarily allowing person convicted, charged, or adjudicated delinquent of felony to escape; penalty - If any sheriff, jailer, or other officer, or any guard...
§ 18.2-476. Officers, etc., willfully and deliberately permitting person convicted of, charged with, or adjudicated delinquent of a nonfelonious offense to escape or willfully refusing to receive person; penalty - If any sheriff, jailer, or other officer, or any guard...
§ 18.2-477. Prisoner escaping from jail; how punished - If any person confined in jail or in custody after...
§ 18.2-477.1. Escapes from juvenile facility; penalty - A. It shall be unlawful for any person to escape...
§ 18.2-477.2. Punishment for certain offenses committed within a secure juvenile facility or detention home - It shall be unlawful for a person committed to the...
§ 18.2-478. Escape from jail or custody by force or violence without setting fire to jail - If any person lawfully imprisoned in jail and not tried...
§ 18.2-479. Escape without force or violence or setting fire to jail - A. Except as provided in subsection B, any person lawfully...
§ 18.2-479.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2018, c. 417, cl. 2.
§ 18.2-480. Escape, etc., by setting fire to jail - If any person lawfully imprisoned in jail escape, or attempt...
§ 18.2-480.1. Admissibility of records of Department of Corrections in escape cases - In any prosecution for, or preliminary hearing for, the offense...