2011 Code of Virginia
Title 18.2 CRIMES AND OFFENSES GENERALLY.
Chapter 12 Miscellaneous (18.2-493 thru 18.2-511.1)
18.2-505 Preparation, etc., of papers to be submitted for academic credit
18.2-505. Preparation, etc., of papers to be submitted for academic credit.
(a) No person shall prepare, cause to be prepared or sell any term paper, thesis, dissertation or other written material for another person, for profit, with the knowledge, or under circumstances in which he should reasonably have known, that such term paper, thesis, dissertation or other written material is to be submitted by any other person for academic credit at any public or private college, university or other institution of higher learning in this Commonwealth.
(b) No person shall make or disseminate, with the intent to induce any other person to enter into any obligation relating thereto, any statement, written or oral, that he will prepare or cause to be prepared, any term paper, thesis, dissertation or other written material, to be sold for profit, for or on behalf of any person who has been assigned the written preparation of such term paper, thesis, dissertation or other written material for academic credit at any public or private college, university or other institution of higher learning in this Commonwealth.
(Code 1950, 18.1-371.1; 1974, c. 342; 1975, cc. 14, 15.)
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