18.2-98 - Larceny of bank notes, checks, etc., or any book of accounts. - Virginia Statutes

§ 18.2-98. Larceny of bank notes, checks, etc., or any book of accounts.

If any person steal any bank note, check, or other writing or paper of value,whether the same represents money and passes as currency, or otherwise, orany book of accounts, for or concerning money or goods due or to bedelivered, he shall be deemed guilty of larceny thereof, and may be chargedfor such larceny under § 18.2-95 or 18.2-96, and if convicted shall receivethe same punishment, according to the value of the thing stolen, prescribedfor the punishment of the larceny of goods and chattels. The provisions ofthis section shall be construed to embrace all bank notes and papers of valuerepresenting money and passing as currency, whether the same be the issue ofthis Commonwealth or any other state, or of the United States, or of anycorporation, and shall include all other papers of value, of whateverdescription. In a prosecution under this section, the money due on or securedby the writing, paper or book, and remaining unsatisfied, or which in anyevent might be collected thereon, or the value of the property or moneyaffected thereby, shall be deemed to be the value of the article stolen.

(Code 1950, §§ 18.1-104, 18.1-105; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 2009, c.591.)