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Home » US Law » 2022 Code of Virginia » Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure » Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties » Article 5. Receipts for Fines » § 19.2-361. Misuse, misappropriation or willful failure to account for fines is embezzlement

If any officer misuse, misappropriate, or willfully fail to return or account for, a fine collected by him he shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement and shall be punished as for the embezzlement of public funds and the failure, without good cause, to produce or account for any receipt form received by him shall be prima facie evidence of his embezzlement of the amount represented thereby.

Code 1950, § 19.1-350; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.