Virginia criminal code — article
Article 7: Damage to and Tampering with Property
Article 7 of Chapter 5: Crimes Against Property, Code of Virginia. Statutory text on each section page is current through the legislative session it names.
Sections of Article 7
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-144 — Maiming, killing or poisoning animals, fowl, etc
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-144.1 — Prohibition against killing or injuring police animals; penalty
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-144.2 — Prohibition against making a false representation of ownership of an animal to a public or private animal shelter; penalty
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-145 — Protection of homing pigeons
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-145.1 — Damaging or destroying research farm product; penalty; restitution
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-146 — Breaking, injuring, defacing, destroying, or preventing the operation of vehicle, aircraft, boat, or vessel; penalties
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-146.1 — Unlawful purchase or sale of a catalytic converter from a motor vehicle exhaust system that has been detached from a motor vehicle; penalty
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-146.2 — Interference with commercial fishing vessels or activity; penalty
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-147 — Entering or setting in motion, vehicle, aircraft, boat, locomotive or rolling stock of railroad; exceptions
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-147.1 — Breaking and entering into railroad cars, motortrucks, aircraft, etc., or pipeline systems
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-147.2 — Devices for puncturing motor vehicle tires
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-148 — Bona fide repossession under lien
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-149 — Injury to hired animal, aircraft, vehicle or boat
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-150 — Willfully destroying vessel, etc
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-151 — Opening or carrying away pumps, etc., used for dispensing gasoline, etc
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-151.1 — Injuring, destroying, removing, or tampering with firefighting equipment; penalty
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-152 — Stealing from or tampering with parking meter, vending machine, pay telephone, etc
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