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Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-201 — Advances secured by fraudulent promise to perform agricultural labor

Current through 2026 Regular Session

Part of Article 7: Miscellaneous False and Fraudulent Acts, Code of Virginia.

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Full text of Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-201

Statutory text current through the 2026 Regular Session. This publication reproduces the text of the Code of Virginia from the official Virginia Law Portal API published by the Virginia General Assembly's Division of Legislative Automated Systems; it is not the official Code of Virginia.

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-201Primary source, current through the 2026 Regular Session
If any person enter into a contract of employment, oral or written, for the performance of personal service to be rendered within one year, in and about the cultivation of the soil, and, at any time during the pendency of such contract, thereby obtain from the landowner, or the person so engaged in the cultivation of the soil, advances of money or other thing of value under such contract, with intent to injure or defraud his employer, and fraudulently refuses or fails to perform such service or to refund such money or other thing of value so obtained, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. But no prosecution hereunder shall be commenced more than sixty days after the breach of such contract.

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Is advances secured by fraudulent promise to perform agricultural labor a felony or a misdemeanor in Virginia?

Advances secured by fraudulent promise to perform agricultural labor is a class 3 misdemeanor in Virginia under Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-201.

Which Virginia statute covers advances secured by fraudulent promise to perform agricultural labor?

Advances secured by fraudulent promise to perform agricultural labor is governed by Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-201 (Advances secured by fraudulent promise to perform agricultural labor).

This reference is informational and is not legal advice.