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2019 Code of Virginia
Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally
Chapter 10 - Crimes Against the Administration of Justice
Article 1. Perjury
- § 18.2-434. What deemed perjury; punishment and penalty
- § 18.2-435. Giving conflicting testimony on separate occasions as to same matter; indictment; sufficiency of evidence
- § 18.2-436. Inducing another to give false testimony; sufficiency of evidence
- § 18.2-437. Immunity of witnesses
Article 2. Bribery and Related Offenses
- § 18.2-438. Bribes to officers or candidates for office
- § 18.2-439. Acceptance of bribe by officer or candidate
- § 18.2-440. Bribes to officers to prevent service of process
- § 18.2-441. Giving bribes to, or receiving bribes by, commissioners, jurors, etc.
- § 18.2-441.1. Bribery of witnesses
- § 18.2-442. Bribery of participants in games, contests or sports
- § 18.2-443. Solicitation or acceptance of bribes by participants or by managers, coaches or trainers
- § 18.2-444. Corruptly influencing, or being influenced as, agents, etc.
- § 18.2-444.1. Reserved
- § 18.2-444.2. Giving or accepting a fee or gift for purposes of influencing decisions of financial institution
- § 18.2-445. Immunity of witnesses
Article 3. Bribery of Public Servants and Party Officials
- § 18.2-446. Definitions
- § 18.2-447. When person guilty of bribery
- § 18.2-448. Certain matters not to constitute defenses
- § 18.2-449. Punishment
- § 18.2-450. Immunity of witnesses
Article 4. Barratry
- § 18.2-451. Definitions; application and construction of article
- § 18.2-452. Barratry unlawful
- § 18.2-453. Aiders and abettors
- § 18.2-454. Enjoining barratry
- § 18.2-455. Unprofessional conduct; revocation of license
Article 5. Contempt of Court
- § 18.2-456. Cases in which courts and judges may punish summarily for contempt
- § 18.2-457. Fine and imprisonment by court limited unless jury impaneled
- § 18.2-458. Power of judge of district court to punish for contempt
- § 18.2-459. Appeal from sentence of such judge
Article 6. Interference with Administration of Justice
- § 18.2-460. Obstructing justice; resisting arrest; fleeing from a law-enforcement officer; penalties
- § 18.2-460.1. Unlawful disclosure of existence of order authorizing wire or oral interception of communication
- § 18.2-461. Falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials
- § 18.2-462. Concealing or compounding offenses; penalties
- § 18.2-462.1. Use of police radio during commission of crime
- § 18.2-463. Refusal to aid officer in execution of his office
- § 18.2-464. Failure to obey order of conservator of the peace
- § 18.2-465. Officer summoning juror to act impartially
- § 18.2-465.1. Penalizing employee for court appearance or service on jury panel
- § 18.2-466. Corruptly procuring juror to be summoned
- § 18.2-467. Fraud in drawing jurors, etc.
- § 18.2-468. Making sound recordings of jury deliberations
- § 18.2-469. Officer refusing, delaying, etc., to execute process for criminal
- § 18.2-470. Extortion by officer
- § 18.2-471. Fraudulent issue of fee bills
- § 18.2-471.1. Destruction of human biological evidence; penalty
- § 18.2-472. False entries or destruction of records by officers
- § 18.2-472.1. Providing false information or failing to provide registration information; penalty; prima facie evidence
Article 7. Escape of, Communications with and Deliveries to Prisoners
- § 18.2-473. Persons aiding escape of prisoner or child
- § 18.2-473.1. Communication with prisoners or committed person; penalty
- § 18.2-474. Delivery of articles to prisoners or committed person
- § 18.2-474.1. Delivery of drugs, firearms, explosives, etc., to prisoners or committed persons
- § 18.2-475. Officers, etc., voluntarily allowing person convicted, charged, or adjudicated delinquent of felony to escape; penalty
- § 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
- § 18.2-477. Prisoner escaping from jail; how punished
- § 18.2-477.1. Escapes from juvenile facility; penalty
- § 18.2-477.2. Punishment for certain offenses committed within a secure juvenile facility or detention home
- § 18.2-478. Escape from jail or custody by force or violence without setting fire to jail
- § 18.2-479. Escape without force or violence or setting fire to jail
- § 18.2-479.1. Repealed
- § 18.2-480. Escape, etc., by setting fire to jail
- § 18.2-480.1. Admissibility of records of Department of Corrections in escape cases
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