Virginia legal term
Authorization in Virginia Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Virginia legislative session
In Virginia criminal law, “Authorization” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Virginia criminal code.
What does “Authorization” mean in Virginia criminal law?
"Authorization" means the minor has delivered to the physician a notarized, written statement signed by an authorized person that the authorized person knows of the minor's intent to have an abortion and consents to such abortion being performed on the minor. (Va. Code Ann. § 16.1-241)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Credit card factoring
- Identification of certain personalty
- Identity theft
- Misuse of public assets
- Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system
- Unlawful use of payment card scanning devices and re-encoders
- Credit card and gift card forgery
- Crossing established police lines, perimeters or barricades
- Driving while license, permit, or privilege to drive suspended or revoked
- Fraudulent procurement, sale, or receipt of telephone records
- Illegal conveyance or possession of cellular telephone or other wireless telecommunications device by prisoner or committed person
- Possession of a weapon in a hospital that provides mental health services or developmental services prohibited
Related terms in the same statutes
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