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2023 Code of Virginia
Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally
Chapter 12 - Miscellaneous
§ 18.2-503. Possession or duplication of certain keys
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VA Code § 18.2-503 (2023)
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(a) No person shall knowingly possess any key to the lock of any building or other property owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia, or a department, division, agency or political subdivision thereof, without receiving permission from a person duly authorized to give such permission to possess such key.
(b) No person, without receiving permission from a person duly authorized to give such permission, shall knowingly duplicate, copy or make a facsimile of any key to a lock of a building or other property owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia, or a department, division, agency or political subdivision thereof.
Violation of this section shall constitute a Class 3 misdemeanor.
Code 1950, ยง 18.1-408.1; 1972, c. 139; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1984, c. 61.
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