18.2-209 - False publications. - Virginia Statutes

§ 18.2-209. False publications.

Any person who knowingly and willfully states, delivers or transmits by anymeans whatever to any publisher, or employee of a publisher, of anynewspaper, magazine, or other publication or to any owner, or employee of anowner, of any radio station, television station, news service or cableservice, any false and untrue statement, knowing the same to be false oruntrue, concerning any person or corporation, with intent that the same shallbe published, broadcast or otherwise disseminated, shall be guilty of a Class3 misdemeanor.

(Code 1950, § 18.1-407; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1978, c. 359.)