58.1-4018.1 - Larceny of tickets; fraudulent notification of prizes; penalty. - Virginia Statutes

§ 58.1-4018.1. Larceny of tickets; fraudulent notification of prizes; penalty.

A. Any person who steals or otherwise unlawfully converts to his own oranother's use a lottery ticket, prize, share, or portion thereof shall beguilty of larceny. For purposes of this subsection, the value of a lotteryticket, prize, share, or portion thereof shall be deemed to be the greater ofits face amount or its redemption value.

B. Any person who, with intent to defraud, steal, embezzle, or violate theprovisions of § 18.2-186.3, designs, makes, prints, or otherwise produces, inwhole or in part, a document or writing, whether in printed or electronicform, which falsely purports to be correspondence from or on behalf of thelottery shall be guilty of a Class 5 felony.

Jurisdiction shall lie and prosecution may proceed under this subsection inany county or city (i) in which the document was created; (ii) from which itwas sent, regardless of the form of delivery; or (iii) in which it wasreceived, regardless of the form of delivery.

(2006, c. 598.)