CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROPERTY CAPABLE OF EMBEZZLEMENT (§ 18.2-152.8)

For purposes of §§ 18.2-95, 18.2-96, 18.2-108, and 18.2-111, personal property
subject to embezzlement, larceny, or receiving stolen goods shall include:

   1.  Computers and computer networks;

   2.  Financial instruments, computer data, computer programs, computer software
   and all other personal property regardless of whether they are:
               
               
               
            

      a.  Tangible or intangible;

      b.  In a format readable by humans or by a computer;

      c.  In transit between computers or within a computer network or between any
      devices which comprise a computer; or

      d.  Located on any paper or in any device on which it is stored by a
      computer or by a human; and

   3.  Computer services.

HISTORY: 1984, c. 751; 2005, cc. 746, 761, 827.