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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>358051</law_id><section_number>3.2-5410</section_number><catch_line>Prohibitions of bribery or gifts to state employees; assaults or interference with such employees</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="5" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="4" identifier="IV">Food and Drink; Weights and Measures</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="2" identifier="54">Slaughterhouses, Meat, and Dressed Poultry</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="3" identifier="3">Enforcement and Penalties</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Any person that shall give, pay, or offer, directly or indirectly, to any officer or employee of the Commonwealth authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this chapter or by the regulations of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>, any money or other thing of value, with <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to influence said officer or employee in the discharge of any such duty, is guilty of a Class 6 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. Any officer or employee of the Commonwealth authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this article who shall accept any money, gift, or other thing of value from any person, given with <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to influence his official action, or who shall receive or accept from any person engaged in intrastate commerce any gift, money, or other thing of value given with any purpose or <span class="dictionary">intent</span> whatsoever, is guilty of a Class 6 <span class="dictionary">felony</span> and shall, upon <span class="dictionary">conviction</span>, be summarily discharged from office. <a id="paragraph-1332426" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-5410/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Any person that forcibly <span class="dictionary">assaults</span>, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties under this chapter with the <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to hinder, delay, or prevent the performance of such duties is guilty of a Class 6 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. <a id="paragraph-1332427" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-5410/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1970, c. 290, &#xA7; 3.1-884.25; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
