No person shall publicly burn with contempt, mutilate, deface, defile, trample upon, or wear with intent to defile any such flag, standard, color, ensign or shield.
Code 1950, § 18.1-425; 1960, c. 358; 1968, c. 349; 1975, cc. 14, 15, 493.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally
Chapter 11 - Offenses Against the Sovereignty of the Commonwealth
§ 18.2-481. Treason defined; how proved and punished
§ 18.2-482. Misprision of treason
§ 18.2-483. Attempting, or instigating others, to establish usurped government
§ 18.2-484. Advocacy of change in government by force, violence or other unlawful means
§ 18.2-485. Conspiring to incite one race to insurrection against another race
§ 18.2-486. Definition of flag, standard, etc.
§ 18.2-487. Exhibition or display
§ 18.2-488. Mutilating, defacing, etc.