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2016 Code of Virginia
Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties
§ 19.2-361. Misuse, misappropriation or willful failure to account for fines is embezzlement

VA Code § 19.2-361 (2016) What's This?

If any officer misuse, misappropriate, or willfully fail to return or account for, a fine collected by him he shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement and shall be punished as for the embezzlement of public funds and the failure, without good cause, to produce or account for any receipt form received by him shall be prima facie evidence of his embezzlement of the amount represented thereby.

Code 1950, ยง 19.1-350; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.

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