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HOUSE BILL NO. 2284 Offered January 11, 2017 A BILL to amend and reenact § 18.2-340.37 of the Code of Virginia, relating to charitable gaming; subpoena powers of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; enforcement; penalty. ---------- Patron-- Yost ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 18.2-340.37 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 18.2-340.37. Criminal penalties.

A. Any person who (i) violates the provisions of this article or who, (ii) willfully and knowingly files, or causes to be filed, a false application, report or other document or who willfully and knowingly makes a false statement, or causes a false statement to be made, on any application, report or other document required to be filed with or made to the Department shall be, or (iii) fails or refuses to obey any subpoena issued by the Department in accordance with subdivision 4 of § 18.2-340.18 is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

B. Each day in violation shall constitute a separate offense.

C. Any person who converts funds derived from any charitable gaming to his own or another's use, when the amount of funds is less than $200, shall be guilty of petit larceny and, when the amount of funds is $200 or more, shall be guilty of grand larceny. The provisions of this section shall not preclude the applicability of any other provision of the criminal law of the Commonwealth that may apply to any course of conduct that violates this section.