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It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1960, chapter 358; in 1975, chapters 14 and 15.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1393255,"object_type":"law","relational_id":350452,"identifier":"18.2-201","token":"18.2\/6\/7\/18.2-201","url":"\/18.2-201\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/18.2-201\/","token":"18.2\/6\/7\/18.2-201","dublin_core":{"Title":"Advances secured by fraudulent promise to perform agricultural labor","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 18.2-201","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>If any person enter into a <span class=\"dictionary\">contract<\/span> of employment, oral or written, for the performance of personal service to be rendered within one year, in and about the cultivation of the soil, and, at any time during the pendency of such <span class=\"dictionary\">contract<\/span>, thereby obtain from the landowner, or the person so engaged in the cultivation of the soil, advances of money or other thing of value under such <span class=\"dictionary\">contract<\/span>, with <span class=\"dictionary\">intent<\/span> to injure or defraud his employer, and fraudulently refuses or fails to perform such service or to refund such money or other thing of value so obtained, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 <span class=\"dictionary\">misdemeanor<\/span>. 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But no prosecution\nhereunder shall be commenced more than sixty days after the breach of such\ncontract.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1950, \u00a7 18.1-114; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}