Chap. 95.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, entitled an act to prevent and
punish fraud in the procurement of a certificate, license, or permit, from a
State board, or other body, charged with the duty of examining persons de-
siring to cngage in or practice certain businesses or professions, approved
March 21, 1924. {[S B 32]

Approved March 5, 1928

I. Re it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled an act to prevent and punish fraud in the procurement
of a certificate, license, or permit, from a State board, or other
body, charged with the duty of examining persons desiring to en-
gage in or practice certain businesses or professions, approved
March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: That it shall
be unlawful for any person fraudulently to procure, or assist an-
other to procure, a certificate, license, or permit, from any State
board, or other body, charged by law with the duty of examining
persons desiring to engage in or practice, a business or profession
for which a certificate, license, or permit, is required by law from
such board or body, by giving to, or receiving from, any person
any information, oral, written, or printed, during the conduct of
such examination, which is intended to, or will, assist any person
taking such examination in passing the examination and procuring
the required certificate, license. or permit; and it shall also be
unlawful for any person, other than a member or officer of such
board, or body, to procure, or have in his possession, prior to the
beginning of such examination, without written authority of some
member or officer of such board, or body, any copy or copies of
the questions, or any of them, intended to be used by such board,
or body, conducting such examination, or to receive, or furnish to
any person taking such examination, prior to or during such
examination, any written or printed memorandum or information,
purporting to be answers to, or aid in answering, such questions;
and it shall also be unlawful for any person to attempt to fraudu-
lently procure any copy, or copies, of the questions, or any of
them, intended to be used by such board, or body, conducting such
examination, or the answers to such questions, or any of them,
(and the promise or offer of any valuable, or other, consideration
to a person having access to said questions, or answers, as an in-
ducement to procure for delivery to the promisor, or any other
person, a copy, or copies, of said questions, or answers, or any of
them, shall be deemed an attempt under this section.) If said
examination be divided into separate sections, each of said sec-
tions shall be deemed an examination within the meaning of this
act. ;

2. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
punished by a fine of not less than fifty, nor more than one hun-
dred, dollars, or by imprisonment in jail for not more than thirty
davs, or both in the discretion of the court.