Chap. 319.—An ACT to make it unlawful for any person to knowingly or
wilfully make any false or fraudulent statement or representation of any
material fact in or with reference to any application for insurance or as to
the death or disability of a policy or certificate holder in, or for the purpose
of procuring or attempting to procure the payment of any false or fraudu-
lent claim against, or for the purpose of obtaining or attempting to obtain
any money from or benefit in any industrial sick benefit company licensed,
or which may be licensed to do business in this State, and to provide
penalties for its violation. (S B 355]

Approved March 20, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That any
agent, physician or other person who shall knowingly or wilfully
make any false or fraudulent statement or representation of any ma-
terial fact in or with reference to any application for insurance or
as to the death or disability of a policy or certificate holder in, or
for the purpose of procuring or attempting to procure the payment
of any false or fraududent claim against, or for the purpose of ob-
taining or attempting to obtain any money from or benefit in any
industrial sick benefit company licensed, or which may be licensed
to do business in this State, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than
one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprison-
ment in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than
one year, or both, in the discretion of the court; and any such person
who shall wilfully make a false statement of any material fact or
thing in a sworn statement as to the death or disability of a policy
or certificate holder in any such company for the purpose of pro-
curing payment of a benefit named in the policy or certificate of
such holder, shall be guilty of perjury, and shall be proceeded against
and punished as provided by the statutes of this State in relation
to the crime of perjury.