CODE OF VIRGINIA

LARCENY OF TICKETS; FRAUDULENT NOTIFICATION OF PRIZES; PENALTY (§ 58.1-4018.1)

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

B. Any person who, with intent to defraud, steal, embezzle, or violate the
provisions of § 18.2-186.3, designs, makes, prints, or otherwise produces, in
whole or in part, a document or writing, whether in printed or electronic form,
which falsely purports to be correspondence from or on behalf of the lottery
shall be guilty of a Class 5 felony.Jurisdiction shall lie and prosecution may
proceed under this subsection in any county or city (i) in which the document
was created; (ii) from which it was sent, regardless of the form of delivery; or
(iii) in which it was received, regardless of the form of delivery.

HISTORY: 2006, c. 598.