Virginia legal term
Ordinance in Virginia Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Virginia legislative session
In Virginia criminal law, “Ordinance” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Virginia criminal code.
What does “Ordinance” mean in Virginia criminal law?
"Ordinance" means a county, city or town ordinance. (Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-268.1)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Carrying concealed weapons
- Driving after forfeiture of license
- Misuse of public assets
- Administrative impoundment of motor vehicle for certain driving while license suspended or revoked offenses
- Carrying weapon in air carrier airport terminal
- Compensation of court-appointed counsel
- Driving while license, permit, or privilege to drive suspended or revoked
- Maiming, etc., of another resulting from driving while intoxicated
- Maiming, etc., of another resulting from operating a watercraft while intoxicated
- Malicious bodily injury to law-enforcement officers, firefighters, search and rescue personnel, or emergency medical services personnel
- Protection of homing pigeons
- Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearms by persons acquitted by reason of insanity
Related terms in the same statutes
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