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Chapter 1 - In General
§ 18.2-1. Repealing clause - All acts and parts of acts, all sections of this...
§ 18.2-2. Effect of repeal of Title 18.1 and enactment of this title - The repeal of Title 18.1, effective as of October 1,...
§ 18.2-3. Certain notices, recognizances and processes validated - Any notice given, recognizance taken, or process or writ issued...
§ 18.2-4. References to former sections, articles and chapters of Title 18.1 and others - Whenever in this title any of the conditions, requirements, provisions...
§ 18.2-5. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2005, c. 839, cl. 10, effective October...
§ 18.2-6. Meaning of certain terms - As used in this title: The word "court," unless otherwise...
§ 18.2-7. Criminal act not to merge civil remedy - The commission of a crime shall not stay or merge...
§ 18.2-8. Felonies, misdemeanors and traffic infractions defined - Offenses are either felonies or misdemeanors. Such offenses as are...
§ 18.2-9. Classification of criminal offenses - (1) Felonies are classified, for the purposes of punishment and...
§ 18.2-10. Punishment for conviction of felony; penalty - The authorized punishments for conviction of a felony are: (a)...
§ 18.2-11. Punishment for conviction of misdemeanor - The authorized punishments for conviction of a misdemeanor are: (a)...
§ 18.2-12. Same; where no punishment or maximum punishment prescribed - A misdemeanor for which no punishment or no maximum punishment...
§ 18.2-12.1. Mandatory minimum punishment; definition - "Mandatory minimum" wherever it appears in this Code means, for...
§ 18.2-13. Same; by reference - Where a statute in this Code prescribes punishment by stating...
§ 18.2-14. How unclassified offenses punished - Offenses defined in Title 18.2 and in other titles in...
§ 18.2-15. Place of punishment - Imprisonment for conviction of a felony shall be by confinement...
§ 18.2-16. How common-law offenses punished - A common-law offense, for which punishment is prescribed by statute,...
§ 18.2-17. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2021, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 344 and...
Chapter 2 - Principals and Accessories
§ 18.2-18. How principals in second degree and accessories before the fact punished - In the case of every felony, every principal in the...
§ 18.2-19. How accessories after the fact punished; certain exceptions - Every accessory after the fact is guilty of (i) a...
§ 18.2-20. Reserved - Reserved.
§ 18.2-21. When and where accessories tried; how indicted - An accessory, either before or after the fact, may, whether...
Chapter 3 - Inchoate Offenses
§ 18.2-22. Conspiracy to commit felony - (a) If any person shall conspire, confederate or combine with...
§ 18.2-23. Conspiring to trespass or commit larceny - A. If any person shall conspire, confederate or combine with...
§ 18.2-23.1. Completed substantive offense bars conviction for conspiracy - Notwithstanding any other provision of this article or of §...
§ 18.2-24. Reserved - Reserved.
§ 18.2-25. Attempts to commit Class 1 felony offenses; how punished - If any person attempts to commit an offense that is...
§ 18.2-26. Attempts to commit felonies other than Class 1 felony offenses; how punished - Except as provided in § 18.2-25, every person who attempts...
§ 18.2-27. Attempts to commit misdemeanors; how punished - Every person who attempts to commit an offense which is...
§ 18.2-28. Maximum punishment for attempts - Any provision in this article notwithstanding, in no event shall...
§ 18.2-29. Criminal solicitation; penalty - Any person who commands, entreats, or otherwise attempts to persuade...
Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person
§ 18.2-30. Murder and manslaughter declared felonies - Any person who commits aggravated murder, murder of the first...
§ 18.2-31. Aggravated murder defined; punishment - A. The following offenses shall constitute aggravated murder, punishable as...
§ 18.2-32. First and second degree murder defined; punishment - Murder, other than aggravated murder, by poison, lying in wait,...
§ 18.2-32.1. Murder of a pregnant woman; penalty - The willful and deliberate killing of a pregnant woman without...
§ 18.2-32.2. Killing a fetus; penalty - A. Any person who unlawfully, willfully, deliberately, maliciously and with...
§ 18.2-32.3. Human infant; independent and separate existence - For the purposes of this article, the fact that the...
§ 18.2-33. Felony homicide defined; punishment - The killing of one accidentally, contrary to the intention of...
§ 18.2-34. Reserved - Reserved.
§ 18.2-35. How voluntary manslaughter punished - Voluntary manslaughter is punishable as a Class 5 felony. Code...
§ 18.2-36. How involuntary manslaughter punished - Involuntary manslaughter is punishable as a Class 5 felony. Code...
§ 18.2-36.1. Certain conduct punishable as involuntary manslaughter - A. Any person who, as a result of driving under...
§ 18.2-36.2. Involuntary manslaughter; operating a watercraft while under the influence; penalties - A. Any person who, as a result of operating a...
§ 18.2-37. How and where homicide prosecuted and punished if death occur without the Commonwealth - If any person be stricken or poisoned in this Commonwealth,...
§ 18.2-37.1. Certain matters not to constitute defenses - A. Another person's actual or perceived sex, gender, gender identity,...
§ 18.2-38. "Mob" defined - Any collection of people, assembled for the purpose and with...
§ 18.2-39. "Lynching" defined - Any act of violence by a mob upon the body...
§ 18.2-40. Lynching deemed murder - Every lynching shall be deemed murder. Any and every person...
§ 18.2-41. Shooting, stabbing, etc., with intent to maim, kill, etc., by mob - Any and every person composing a mob which shall maliciously...
§ 18.2-42. Assault or battery by mob - Any and every person composing a mob which shall commit...
§ 18.2-42.1. Acts of violence by mob - Any and every person composing a mob which commits an...
§ 18.2-43. Apprehension and prosecution of participants in lynching - The attorney for the Commonwealth of any county or city...
§ 18.2-44. Civil liability for lynching - No provisions of this article shall be construed to relieve...
§ 18.2-45. Persons suffering death from mob attempting to lynch another person - Every person suffering death from a mob attempting to lynch...
§ 18.2-46. Venue - Venue for all actions and prosecutions under any of the...
§ 18.2-46.1. Definitions - As used in this article unless the context requires otherwise...
§ 18.2-46.2. Prohibited criminal street gang participation; penalty - A. Any person who actively participates in or is a...
§ 18.2-46.3. Recruitment of persons for criminal street gang; penalty - A. Any person who solicits, invites, recruits, encourages or otherwise...
§ 18.2-46.3:1. Third or subsequent conviction of criminal street gang crimes - Upon a felony conviction of § 18.2-46.2 or § 18.2-46.3,...
§ 18.2-46.3:2. Forfeiture - All property, both personal and real, of any kind or...
§ 18.2-46.3:3. Enhanced punishment for gang activity taking place in a gang-free zone; penalties - Any person who violates § 18.2-46.2 (i) upon the property,...
§ 18.2-46.4. Definitions - As used in this article, unless the context requires otherwise...
§ 18.2-46.5. Committing, conspiring and aiding and abetting acts of terrorism prohibited; penalty - A. Any person who commits or conspires to commit, or...
§ 18.2-46.6. Possession, manufacture, distribution, etc. of weapon of terrorism or hoax device prohibited; penalty - A. Any person who, with the intent to commit an...
§ 18.2-46.7. Act of bioterrorism against agricultural crops or animals; penalty - Any person who maliciously destroys or devastates agricultural crops or...
§ 18.2-46.8. Venue - Venue for any violation of this article may be had...
§ 18.2-46.9. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2004, c. 995.
§ 18.2-46.10. Violation of sections within article separate and distinct offenses - A violation of any section in this article shall constitute...
§ 18.2-47. Abduction and kidnapping defined; punishment - A. Any person who, by force, intimidation or deception, and...
§ 18.2-48. Abduction with intent to extort money or for immoral purpose - Abduction (i) of any person with the intent to extort...
§ 18.2-48.1. Abduction by prisoners or committed persons; penalty - Any person confined in a state, local, or community correctional...
§ 18.2-49. Threatening, attempting, or assisting in such abduction; penalty - Any person who (1) threatens, or attempts, to abduct any...
§ 18.2-49.1. Violation of court order regarding custody and visitation; penalty - A. Any person who knowingly, wrongfully and intentionally withholds a...
§ 18.2-50. Disclosure of information and assistance to law-enforcement officers required - Whenever it is brought to the attention of the members...
§ 18.2-50.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1992, c. 479.
§ 18.2-50.2. Emergency control of telephone service in hostage or barricaded person situation - A. The Superintendent of the State Police or the chief...
§ 18.2-50.3. Enticing, etc., another into a dwelling house with intent to commit certain felonies; penalty - Any person who commits a violation of § 18.2-31, 18.2-32,...
§ 18.2-51. Shooting, stabbing, etc., with intent to maim, kill, etc. - If any person maliciously shoot, stab, cut, or wound any...
§ 18.2-51.1. Malicious bodily injury to law-enforcement officers, firefighters, search and rescue personnel, or emergency medical services personnel; penalty; lesser-included offense - If any person maliciously causes bodily injury to another by...
§ 18.2-51.2. Aggravated malicious wounding; penalty - A. If any person maliciously shoots, stabs, cuts or wounds...
§ 18.2-51.3. Prohibition against reckless endangerment of others by throwing objects from places higher than one story; penalty - A. It shall be unlawful for any person, with the...
§ 18.2-51.4. Maiming, etc., of another resulting from driving while intoxicated - A. Any person who, as a result of driving while...
§ 18.2-51.5. Maiming, etc., of another resulting from operating a watercraft while intoxicated; penalty - A. Any person who, as a result of operating a...
§ 18.2-51.6. Strangulation of another; penalty - Any person who, without consent, impedes the blood circulation or...
§ 18.2-51.7. Female genital mutilation; penalty - A. Any person who knowingly circumcises, excises, or infibulates, in...
§ 18.2-52. Malicious bodily injury by means of any caustic substance or agent or use of any explosive or fire - If any person maliciously causes any other person bodily injury...
§ 18.2-52.1. Possession of infectious biological substances or radiological agents; penalties - A. Any person who possesses, with the intent thereby to...
§ 18.2-52.2. Animal attack resulting from owner's disregard for human life; penalty - A. Any owner of an animal is guilty of a...
§ 18.2-53. Shooting, etc., in committing or attempting a felony - If any person, in the commission of, or attempt to...
§ 18.2-53.1. Use or display of firearm in committing felony - It shall be unlawful for any person to use or...
§ 18.2-54. Conviction of lesser offenses under certain indictments - On any indictment for maliciously shooting, stabbing, cutting or wounding...
§ 18.2-54.1. Attempts to poison - If any person administers or attempts to administer any poison...
§ 18.2-54.2. Adulteration of food, drink, drugs, cosmetics, etc.; penalty - Any person who adulterates or causes to be adulterated any...
§ 18.2-55. Bodily injuries caused by prisoners, state juvenile probationers and state and local adult probationers or adult parolees - A. It shall be unlawful for a person confined in...
§ 18.2-55.1. Hazing of youth gang members unlawful; criminal liability - It shall be unlawful to cause bodily injury by hazing...
§ 18.2-56. Hazing unlawful; civil and criminal liability; duty of school, etc., officials; penalty - It shall be unlawful to haze so as to cause...
§ 18.2-56.1. Reckless handling of firearms; reckless handling while hunting - A. It shall be unlawful for any person to handle...
§ 18.2-56.2. Allowing access to firearms by children; penalty - A. It shall be unlawful for any person to recklessly...
§ 18.2-57. Assault and battery; penalty - A. Any person who commits a simple assault or assault...
§ 18.2-57.01. Pointing laser at law-enforcement officer unlawful; penalty - If any person, knowing or having reason to know another...
§ 18.2-57.02. Disarming a law-enforcement or correctional officer; penalty - Any person who knows or has reason to know a...
§ 18.2-57.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1997, c. 833.
§ 18.2-57.2. Assault and battery against a family or household member; penalty - A. Any person who commits an assault and battery against...
§ 18.2-57.3. Persons charged with first offense of assault and battery against a family or household member may be placed on local community-based probation; conditions; education and treatment programs; costs and fees; violations; discharge - A. When a person is charged with a simple assault...
§ 18.2-57.4. Reporting findings of assault and battery to military family advocacy representatives - If any active duty member of the United States Armed...
§ 18.2-57.5. Certain matters not to constitute defenses - A. Another person's actual or perceived sex, gender, gender identity,...
§ 18.2-58. Robbery; penalties - A. For the purposes of this section, "serious bodily injury"...
§ 18.2-58.1. Carjacking; penalty - A. Any person who commits carjacking, as herein defined, shall...
§ 18.2-59. Extortion of money, property or pecuniary benefit - Any person who (i) threatens injury to the character, person,...
§ 18.2-60. Threats of death or bodily injury to a person or member of his family; threats of death or bodily injury to persons on school property; threats of death or bodily injury to health care providers; penalty - A. 1. Any person who knowingly communicates, in a writing,...
§ 18.2-60.1. Threatening the Governor or his immediate family - Any person who shall knowingly and willfully send, deliver or...
§ 18.2-60.2. Members of the Governor's immediate family - As used in § 18.2-60.1, the immediate family of the...
§ 18.2-60.3. Stalking; penalty - A. Any person, except a law-enforcement officer, as defined in...
§ 18.2-60.4. Violation of protective orders; penalty - A. Any person who violates any provision of a protective...
§ 18.2-60.5. Unauthorized use of electronic tracking device; penalty - A. Any person who installs or places an electronic tracking...
§ 18.2-61. Rape - A. If any person has sexual intercourse with a complaining...
§ 18.2-62. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 465, cl....
§ 18.2-63. Carnal knowledge of child between thirteen and fifteen years of age - A. If any person carnally knows, without the use of...
§ 18.2-63.1. Death of victim - When the death of the victim occurs in connection with...
§ 18.2-64. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1981, c. 397.
§ 18.2-64.1. Carnal knowledge of certain minors - If any person providing services, paid or unpaid, to juveniles...
§ 18.2-64.2. Carnal knowledge of a person detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer or an inmate, parolee, probationer, juvenile detainee, or pretrial defendant or posttrial offender; penalty - A. An accused is guilty of carnal knowledge of a...
§ 18.2-65. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1981, c. 397.
§ 18.2-66. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2008, cc. 174 and 206, cl. 2.
§ 18.2-67. Depositions of complaining witnesses in cases of criminal sexual assault and attempted criminal sexual assault - Before or during the trial for an offense or attempted...
§ 18.2-67.01. Not in effect - Not in effect.
§ 18.2-67.1. Forcible sodomy - A. An accused shall be guilty of forcible sodomy if...
§ 18.2-67.2. Object sexual penetration; penalty - A. An accused shall be guilty of inanimate or animate...
§ 18.2-67.2:1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2005, c. 631, cl. 2.
§ 18.2-67.3. Aggravated sexual battery; penalty - A. An accused is guilty of aggravated sexual battery if...
§ 18.2-67.4. Sexual battery - A. An accused is guilty of sexual battery if he...
§ 18.2-67.4:1. Infected sexual battery; penalty - A. Any person who is diagnosed with a sexually transmitted...
§ 18.2-67.4:2. Sexual abuse of a child under 15 years of age; penalty - Any adult who, with lascivious intent, commits an act of...
§ 18.2-67.5. Attempted rape, forcible sodomy, object sexual penetration, aggravated sexual battery, and sexual battery - A. An attempt to commit rape, forcible sodomy, or inanimate...
§ 18.2-67.5:1. Punishment upon conviction of third misdemeanor offense - When a person is convicted of sexual battery in violation...
§ 18.2-67.5:2. Punishment upon conviction of certain subsequent felony sexual assault - A. Any person convicted of (i) more than one offense...
§ 18.2-67.5:3. Punishment upon conviction of certain subsequent violent felony sexual assault - A. Any person convicted of more than one offense specified...
§ 18.2-67.6. Proof of physical resistance not required - The Commonwealth need not demonstrate that the complaining witness cried...
§ 18.2-67.7. Admission of evidence (Supreme Court Rule 2:412 derived from this section) - A. In prosecutions under this article, or under clause (iii)...
§ 18.2-67.7:1. Evidence of similar crimes in child sexual offense cases (Supreme Court Rule 2:413 derived from this section) - A. In a criminal case in which the defendant is...
§ 18.2-67.8. Closed preliminary hearings - In preliminary hearings for offenses charged under this article or...
§ 18.2-67.9. Testimony by child victims and witnesses using two-way closed-circuit television - A. The provisions of this section shall apply to an...
§ 18.2-67.9:1. Use of a certified facility dog for testimony in a criminal proceeding - A. As used in this section, "certified facility dog" means...
§ 18.2-67.10. General definitions - As used in this article: 1. "Complaining witness" means the...
§ 18.2-68. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1994, c. 59.
§ 18.2-71. Producing abortion or miscarriage, etc.; penalty - Except as provided in other sections of this article, if...
§ 18.2-71.1. Partial birth infanticide; penalty - A. Any person who knowingly performs partial birth infanticide and...
§ 18.2-72. When abortion lawful during first trimester of pregnancy - Notwithstanding any of the provisions of § 18.2-71, it shall...
§ 18.2-73. When abortion lawful during second trimester of pregnancy - Notwithstanding any of the provisions of § 18.2-71 and in...
§ 18.2-74. When abortion or termination of pregnancy lawful after second trimester of pregnancy - Notwithstanding any of the provisions of § 18.2-71 and in...
§ 18.2-74.1. Abortion, etc., when necessary to save life of woman - In the event it is necessary for a licensed physician...
§ 18.2-74.2. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2003, cc. 961 and 963.
§ 18.2-75. Conscience clause - Nothing in §§ 18.2-72, 18.2-73 or § 18.2-74 shall require...
§ 18.2-76. Informed written consent required - Before performing any abortion or inducing any miscarriage or terminating...
§ 18.2-76.1. Encouraging or promoting abortion - If any person, by publication, lecture, advertisement, or by the...
§ 18.2-76.2. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2015, c. 709, cl. 2.
Chapter 5 - Crimes Against Property
§ 18.2-77. Burning or destroying dwelling house, etc. - A. If any person maliciously (i) burns, or by use...
§ 18.2-78. What not deemed dwelling house - No outhouse, not adjoining a dwelling house, nor under the...
§ 18.2-79. Burning or destroying meeting house, etc. - If any person maliciously burns, or by the use of...
§ 18.2-80. Burning or destroying any other building or structure - If any person maliciously, or with intent to defraud an...
§ 18.2-81. Burning or destroying personal property, standing grain, etc. - If any person maliciously, or with intent to defraud an...
§ 18.2-82. Burning building or structure while in such building or structure with intent to commit felony - If any person while in any building or other structure...
§ 18.2-83. Threats to bomb or damage buildings or means of transportation; false information as to danger to such buildings, etc.; punishment; venue - A. Any person (i) who makes and communicates to another...
§ 18.2-84. Causing, inciting, etc., commission of act proscribed by § 18.2-83 - Any person fifteen years of age or over, including the...
§ 18.2-85. Manufacture, possession, use, etc., of fire bombs or explosive materials or devices; penalties - For the purpose of this section: "Device" means any instrument,...
§ 18.2-86. Setting fire to woods, fences, grass, etc. - If any person maliciously set fire to any wood, fence,...
§ 18.2-87. Setting woods, etc., on fire intentionally whereby another is damaged or jeopardized - Any person who intentionally sets or procures another to set...
§ 18.2-87.1. Setting off chemical bombs capable of producing smoke in certain public buildings - It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully and...
§ 18.2-88. Carelessly damaging property by fire - If any person carelessly, negligently or intentionally set any woods...
§ 18.2-89. Burglary; how punished - If any person break and enter the dwelling house of...
§ 18.2-90. Entering dwelling house, etc., with intent to commit murder, rape, robbery or arson; penalty - If any person in the nighttime enters without breaking or...
§ 18.2-91. Entering dwelling house, etc., with intent to commit larceny, assault and battery or other felony - If any person commits any of the acts mentioned in...
§ 18.2-92. Breaking and entering dwelling house with intent to commit other misdemeanor - If any person break and enter a dwelling house while...
§ 18.2-93. Entering bank, armed, with intent to commit larceny - If any person, armed with a deadly weapon, shall enter...
§ 18.2-94. Possession of burglarious tools, etc. - If any person have in his possession any tools, implements...
§ 18.2-95. Grand larceny defined; how punished - Any person who (i) commits larceny from the person of...
§ 18.2-96. Petit larceny defined; how punished - Any person who: 1. Commits larceny from the person of...
§ 18.2-96.1. Identification of certain personalty - A. The owner of personal property may permanently mark such...
§ 18.2-97. Larceny of certain animals and poultry - Any person who shall be guilty of the larceny of...
§ 18.2-97.1. Removal of a transmitting device; penalty - Any person who removes an electronic or radio transmitting device...
§ 18.2-98. Larceny of bank notes, checks, etc., or any book of accounts - If any person steal any bank note, check, or other...
§ 18.2-98.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1984, c. 751.
§ 18.2-99. Larceny of things fixed to the freehold - Things which savor of the realty, and are at the...
§ 18.2-100. Removal of crop by tenant before rents and advances are satisfied - It shall be unlawful for any person renting the lands...
§ 18.2-101. Selling, etc., of goods distrained or levied on - If any person fraudulently sell, pledge, encumber, remove, destroy, receive...
§ 18.2-102. Unauthorized use of animal, aircraft, vehicle or boat; consent; accessories or accomplices - Any person who shall take, drive or use any animal,...
§ 18.2-102.1. Removal of shopping cart from store premises - (1) The term "shopping cart" when used in this section...
§ 18.2-102.2. Unauthorized use of dairy milk cases or milk crates; penalty - It shall be unlawful for any person to: 1. Buy,...
§ 18.2-103. Concealing or taking possession of merchandise; altering price tags; transferring goods from one container to another; counseling, etc., another in performance of such acts - Whoever, without authority, with the intention of converting goods or...
§ 18.2-104. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 192, cl....
§ 18.2-104.1. Liability upon conviction under § 18.2-103 - Any person who has been convicted of violating the provisions...
§ 18.2-105. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2004, c. 462.
§ 18.2-105.1. Detention of suspected shoplifter - A merchant, agent or employee of the merchant, who has...
§ 18.2-105.2. Manufacture, sale, etc., of devices to shield against electronic detection of shoplifting prohibited; penalty - It shall be unlawful to manufacture, sell, offer for sale,...
§ 18.2-106. "Agents of the merchant" defined - As used in this article "agents of the merchant" shall...
§ 18.2-107. Theft or destruction of public records by others than officers - If any person steal or fraudulently secrete or destroy a...
§ 18.2-108. Receiving, etc., stolen goods - A. If any person buys or receives from another person,...
§ 18.2-108.01. Larceny with intent to sell or distribute; sale of stolen property; penalty - A. Any person who commits larceny of property with a...
§ 18.2-108.1. Receipt of stolen firearm - Notwithstanding the provisions of § 18.2-108, any person who buys...
§ 18.2-109. Receipt or transfer of possession of stolen vehicle, aircraft or boat - Any person who, with intent to procure or pass title...
§ 18.2-110. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2004, c. 995.
§ 18.2-111. Embezzlement deemed larceny; indictment - If any person wrongfully and fraudulently use, dispose of, conceal...
§ 18.2-111.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2004, c. 459.
§ 18.2-111.2. Failure to pay withheld child support; embezzlement - If any employer withholds money from the pay of his...
§ 18.2-112. Embezzlement by officers, etc., of public or other funds; default in paying over funds evidence of guilt - If any officer, agent or employee of the Commonwealth or...
§ 18.2-112.1. Misuse of public assets; penalty - A. For purposes of this section, "public assets" means personal...
§ 18.2-113. Fraudulent entries, etc., in accounts by officers or clerks of financial institutions, joint stock companies or corporations; penalty - If any officer or clerk of any financial institution, joint...
§ 18.2-114. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2004, c. 459.
§ 18.2-114.1. When collection of money by commissioner, etc., larceny - If any special commissioner or receiver, appointed by any court...
§ 18.2-115. Fraudulent conversion or removal of property subject to lien or title to which is in another - Whenever any person is in possession of any personal property,...
§ 18.2-115.1. Unlawful sublease of a motor vehicle; penalty - A. It shall be unlawful for any person, for profit...
§ 18.2-116. Failure to pay for or return goods delivered for selection or approval - If any person shall solicit and obtain from any merchant...
§ 18.2-117. Failure of bailee to return animal, aircraft, vehicle or boat - If any person comes into the possession as bailee of...
§ 18.2-118. Fraudulent conversion or removal of leased personal property - A. Whenever any person is in possession or control of...
§ 18.2-119. Trespass after having been forbidden to do so; penalties - If any person without authority of law goes upon or...
§ 18.2-119.1. Validity of signs forbidding trespass; penalty - If any person knowingly and intentionally posts No Trespassing signs...
§ 18.2-120. Instigating, etc., such trespass by others; preventing service to persons not forbidden to trespass - If any person shall solicit, urge, encourage, exhort, instigate or...
§ 18.2-121. Entering property of another for purpose of damaging it, etc. - A. As used in this section, "disability" means a physical...
§ 18.2-121.1. Permitting certain animals to run at large - The owner or manager of any animal mentioned in §...
§ 18.2-121.2. Trespass by spotlight on agricultural land - If any person shall willfully use a spotlight or similar...
§ 18.2-121.3. Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; penalty - A. Any person who knowingly and intentionally causes an unmanned...
§ 18.2-122. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1998, c. 6.
§ 18.2-123. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2004, c. 459.
§ 18.2-124. Jurisdiction over offenses committed in Capitol Square - The Circuit Court of the City of Richmond shall have...
§ 18.2-125. Trespass at night upon any cemetery - If any person, without the consent of the owner, proprietor...
§ 18.2-126. Violation of sepulture; defilement of a dead human body; penalties - A. If a person unlawfully disinters or displaces a dead...
§ 18.2-127. Injuries to churches, church property, cemeteries, burial grounds, etc.; penalty - A. Any person who willfully or maliciously commits any of...
§ 18.2-128. Trespass upon church or school property - A. Any person who, without the consent of some person...
§ 18.2-129. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1989, c. 680.
§ 18.2-130. Peeping or spying into dwelling or enclosure - A. It shall be unlawful for any person to enter...
§ 18.2-130.1. Peeping or spying into dwelling or occupied building by electronic device; penalty - It is unlawful for any person to knowingly and intentionally...
§ 18.2-131. Trespass upon licensed shooting preserve - It shall be unlawful for any person to trespass on...
§ 18.2-132. Trespass by hunters and fishers - Any person who goes on the lands, waters, ponds, boats...
§ 18.2-132.1. Trespass by hunters using dogs; penalty - Any person who intentionally releases hunting dogs on the lands...
§ 18.2-133. Refusal of person on land, etc., of another to identify himself - Any person who goes on the lands, waters, ponds, boats...
§ 18.2-134. Trespass on posted property - Any person who goes on the lands, waters, ponds, boats...
§ 18.2-134.1. Method of posting lands - A. The owner or lessee of property described in §...
§ 18.2-135. Destruction of posted signs; posting land of another - Any person who shall mutilate, destroy or take down any...
§ 18.2-136. Right of certain hunters to go on lands of another; carrying firearms or bows and arrows prohibited - Fox hunters and coon hunters, when the chase begins on...
§ 18.2-136.1. Enforcement of §§ 18.2-131 through 18.2-135 - Conservation police officers, sheriffs and all other law-enforcement officers shall...
§ 18.2-137. Injuring, etc., any property, monument, etc. - A. If any person unlawfully destroys, defaces, damages, or removes...
§ 18.2-138. Damaging public buildings, etc.; penalty - Any person who willfully and maliciously (i) breaks any window...
§ 18.2-138.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2004, c. 462.
§ 18.2-139. Injuries to trees, fences or herbage on grounds of Capitol, or in any public square - If any person: (1) Cut down, pull up, girdle or...
§ 18.2-140. Destruction of trees, shrubs, etc. - It shall be unlawful for any person to pick, pull,...
§ 18.2-141. Cutting or destroying trees; carrying axe, saw, etc., while hunting - It shall be unlawful for any person while hunting for...
§ 18.2-142. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1979, c. 252.
§ 18.2-143. Pulling down fences or leaving open gates - If any person, without permission of the owner, pull down...
§ 18.2-144. Maiming, killing or poisoning animals, fowl, etc. - Except as otherwise provided for by law, if any person...
§ 18.2-144.1. Prohibition against killing or injuring police animals; penalty - It shall be unlawful for any person to maliciously shoot,...
§ 18.2-144.2. Prohibition against making a false representation of ownership of an animal to a public or private animal shelter; penalty - A. It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver...
§ 18.2-145. Protection of homing pigeons - It shall be unlawful for any person at any time...
§ 18.2-145.1. Damaging or destroying research farm product; penalty; restitution - A. Any person or entity that (i) maliciously damages or...
§ 18.2-146. Breaking, injuring, defacing, destroying, or preventing the operation of vehicle, aircraft, boat, or vessel; penalties - Any person who shall individually or in association with one...
§ 18.2-147. Entering or setting in motion, vehicle, aircraft, boat, locomotive or rolling stock of railroad; exceptions - Any person who shall, without the consent of the owner...
§ 18.2-147.1. Breaking and entering into railroad cars, motortrucks, aircraft, etc., or pipeline systems - Any person who breaks the seal or lock of any...
§ 18.2-147.2. Devices for puncturing motor vehicle tires - It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, distribute,...
§ 18.2-148. Bona fide repossession under lien - The provisions of §§ 18.2-102, 18.2-146 and 18.2-147 shall not...
§ 18.2-149. Injury to hired animal, aircraft, vehicle or boat - If any person after having rented or leased from any...
§ 18.2-150. Willfully destroying vessel, etc. - If any person willfully scuttle, cast away or otherwise dispose...
§ 18.2-151. Opening or carrying away pumps, etc., used for dispensing gasoline, etc. - If any person, with intent to commit larceny therefrom, break...
§ 18.2-151.1. Injuring, destroying, removing, or tampering with firefighting equipment; penalty - Any person who injures, destroys, removes, tampers with, or otherwise...
§ 18.2-152. Stealing from or tampering with parking meter, vending machine, pay telephone, etc. - Any person who enters, forces or attempts to force an...
§ 18.2-152.1. Short title - This article shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 18.2-152.2. Definitions; computer crimes - For purposes of this article: "Commercial electronic mail" means electronic...
§ 18.2-152.3. Computer fraud; penalty - Any person who uses a computer or computer network, without...
§ 18.2-152.3:1. Transmission of unsolicited commercial electronic mail (spam); penalty - A. Any person who: 1. Uses a computer or computer...
§ 18.2-152.4. Computer trespass; penalty - A. It is unlawful for any person, with malicious intent,...
§ 18.2-152.5. Computer invasion of privacy; penalties - A. A person is guilty of the crime of computer...
§ 18.2-152.5:1. Using a computer to gather identifying information; penalties - A. It is unlawful for any person, other than a...
§ 18.2-152.6. Theft of computer services; penalties - Any person who willfully obtains computer services without authority is...
§ 18.2-152.7. Personal trespass by computer; penalty - A. A person is guilty of the crime of personal...
§ 18.2-152.7:1. Harassment by computer; penalty - If any person, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or...
§ 18.2-152.7:2. Using computer to commit a scheme involving false representations; penalty - Any person who, without the intent to receive any direct...
§ 18.2-152.8. Property capable of embezzlement - For purposes of §§ 18.2-95, 18.2-96, 18.2-108, and 18.2-111, personal...
§ 18.2-152.9. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2005, cc. 746, 761, and 827, cl....
§ 18.2-152.11. Article not exclusive - The provisions of this article shall not be construed to...
§ 18.2-152.12. Civil relief; damages - A. Any person whose property or person is injured by...
§ 18.2-152.13. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2015, c. 709, cl. 2.
§ 18.2-152.14. Computer as instrument of forgery - The creation, alteration, or deletion of any computer data contained...
§ 18.2-152.15. Encryption used in criminal activity - Any person who willfully uses encryption to further any criminal...
§ 18.2-152.16. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2004, c. 995.
§ 18.2-152.17. Fraudulent procurement, sale, or receipt of telephone records - A. Whoever (i) knowingly procures, attempts to procure, solicits, or...
§ 18.2-153. Obstructing or injuring canal, railroad, power line, etc. - If any person maliciously obstruct, remove or injure any part...
§ 18.2-154. Shooting at or throwing missiles, etc., at train, car, vessel, etc.; penalty - Any person who maliciously shoots at, or maliciously throws any...
§ 18.2-155. Injuring, etc., signal used by railroad - If any person maliciously injure, destroy, molest, or remove any...
§ 18.2-156. Taking or removing waste or packing from journal boxes - If any person shall willfully and maliciously take or remove...
§ 18.2-157. Injury to fences or cattle stops along line of railroad - Any person who shall willfully or maliciously cut, break down,...
§ 18.2-158. Driving, etc., animal on track to recover damages - If any person, with a view to the recovery of...
§ 18.2-159. Trespassing on railroad track - Any person who goes upon the track of a railroad...
§ 18.2-160. Trespassing on railroad trains - If any person, not being a passenger or employee, shall...
§ 18.2-160.1. Boarding or riding transportation district train without lawful payment of fare; penalty - A. It is unlawful for any person to board or...
§ 18.2-160.2. Trespassing on public transportation; penalty - Any person who enters or remains upon or within a...
§ 18.2-160.3. Fare enforcement inspectors; failure to produce proof of payment of fare; penalty - A. For the purposes of this section, "eligible entity" means...
§ 18.2-161. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2004, c. 459.
§ 18.2-162. Damage or trespass to public services or utilities - Any person who shall intentionally destroy or damage any facility...
§ 18.2-162.1. Diverting wastewater line; diverting or wasting public water supply - Any person who willfully and maliciously (i) diverts any public...
§ 18.2-163. Tampering with metering device; diverting service; civil liability - A. Any person who (i) tampers with any metering device...
§ 18.2-164. Unlawful use of, or injury to, telephone and telegraph lines; copying or obstructing messages; penalty - A. If any person commits any of the following acts,...
§ 18.2-165. Unlawful use of, or injury to, television or radio signals and equipment - Any person who shall willfully or maliciously break, injure or...
§ 18.2-165.1. Tampering with or unlawful use of cable television service - Any person who (i) shall knowingly obtain or attempt to...
§ 18.2-165.2. Unlawful interference with emergency two-way radio communications; penalty - A. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly...
§ 18.2-166. Disclosing or inducing disclosure of certain information concerning customers of telephone companies - Any person: (1) Who is an employee of a telephone...
§ 18.2-167. Selling or transferring certain telephonic instruments - (a) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to...
§ 18.2-167.1. Interception or monitoring of customer telephone calls; penalty - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation...
Chapter 6 - Crimes Involving Fraud
§ 18.2-168. Forging public records, etc. - If any person forge a public record, or certificate, return,...
§ 18.2-169. Forging, or keeping an instrument for forging, a seal - If any person forge, or keep or conceal any instrument...
§ 18.2-170. Forging coin or bank notes - If any person (1) forge any coin, note or bill...
§ 18.2-171. Making or having anything designed for forging any writing, etc. - If any person engrave, stamp, or cast, or otherwise make...
§ 18.2-172. Forging, uttering, etc., other writings - If any person forge any writing, other than such as...
§ 18.2-172.1. Falsifying or altering and fraudulently using transcripts or diplomas; penalty - Any person who materially falsifies or alters a transcript or...
§ 18.2-172.2. Maliciously affixing another's signature to writing; penalty - Any person who maliciously affixes a facsimile or likeness of...
§ 18.2-173. Having in possession forged coin or bank notes - If any person have in his possession forged bank notes...
§ 18.2-174. Impersonating law-enforcement officer; penalty - Any person who falsely assumes or exercises the functions, powers,...
§ 18.2-174.1. Impersonating certain public safety personnel; penalty - Any person who willfully impersonates, with the intent to make...
§ 18.2-175. Unlawful wearing of officer's uniform or insignia; unlawful use of vehicle with word "police" shown thereon - No person, not such an officer as is referred to...
§ 18.2-176. Unauthorized wearing or displaying on motor vehicles of any button, insignia or emblem of certain associations or societies or of Southern Cross of Honor - (a) No person shall wear the button or insignia of...
§ 18.2-177. Illegal use of insignia - Any person who shall willfully wear, exhibit, display, print, or...
§ 18.2-177.1. False representation of military status; penalty - A. It is unlawful for any person, with the intent...
§ 18.2-178. Obtaining money or signature, etc., by false pretense - A. If any person obtain, by any false pretense or...
§ 18.2-178.1. Financial exploitation of vulnerable adults; penalty - A. As used in this section, "vulnerable adult" means the...
§ 18.2-178.2. Financial exploitation by an agent; penalty - A. As used in this section: "Agent" means the same...
§ 18.2-179. Unlawful operation of coin box telephone, parking meter, vending machine, etc. - Any person who shall operate, cause to be operated, or...
§ 18.2-180. Manufacture, etc., of slugs, etc., for such unlawful use - Any person who, with intent to cheat or defraud the...
§ 18.2-181. Issuing bad checks, etc., larceny - Any person who, with intent to defraud, shall make or...
§ 18.2-181.1. Issuance of bad checks - It shall be a Class 6 felony for any person,...
§ 18.2-182. Issuing bad checks on behalf of business firm or corporation in payment of wages; penalty - Any person who shall make, draw, or utter, or deliver...
§ 18.2-182.1. Issuing bad checks in payment of taxes - Any person who shall make, draw, utter, or deliver two...
§ 18.2-183. Issuance of bad check prima facie evidence of intent and knowledge; notice by certified or registered mail - In any prosecution or action under the preceding sections, the...
§ 18.2-184. Presumption as to notation attached to check, draft or order - In any prosecution or action under the preceding sections, any...
§ 18.2-185. Evidence and presumptions in malicious prosecution actions after issuance of bad check - In any civil action growing out of an arrest under...
§ 18.2-186. False statements to obtain property or credit - A. A person shall be guilty of a Class 1...
§ 18.2-186.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1981, c. 255.
§ 18.2-186.2. False statements or failure to disclose material facts in order to obtain aid or benefits under any local, state or federal housing assistance program - Any person who (i) knowingly makes or causes to be...
§ 18.2-186.3. Identity theft; penalty; restitution; victim assistance - A. It shall be unlawful for any person, without the...
§ 18.2-186.3:1. Identity fraud; consumer reporting agencies; police reports - A. A consumer may report a case of identity theft...
§ 18.2-186.4. Use of a person's identity with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass; penalty - It shall be unlawful for any person, with the intent...
§ 18.2-186.4:1. Internet publication of personal information of certain public officials - A. The Commonwealth shall not publish on the Internet the...
§ 18.2-186.5. Expungement of false identity information from police and court records; Identity Theft Passport - A. Any person whose name or other identification has been...
§ 18.2-186.6. Breach of personal information notification - A. As used in this section: "Breach of the security...
§ 18.2-187. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1978, c. 807.
§ 18.2-187.1. Obtaining or attempting to obtain oil, electric, gas, water, telephone, telegraph, cable television or electronic communication service without payment; penalty; civil liability - A. It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly, with...
§ 18.2-187.2. Audiovisual recording of motion pictures unlawful; penalty - A. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate...
§ 18.2-188. Defrauding hotels, motels, campgrounds, boardinghouses, etc. - It shall be unlawful for any person, without paying therefor,...
§ 18.2-188.1. Defrauding person having a lien on an animal; penalty - It shall be unlawful to remove or cause any horse...
§ 18.2-189. Defrauding keeper of motor vehicles or watercraft - A person shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor...
§ 18.2-190. Fraudulent misrepresentation as to breed of bull or cattle - Any person who, in the sale, gift or transfer, of...
§ 18.2-190.1. Definitions - As used in this article, unless the context requires a...
§ 18.2-190.2. Possession of an unlawful electronic communication device or equipment etc., used to manufacture such device; penalty - A person who knowingly possesses (i) an unlawful electronic communication...
§ 18.2-190.3. Sale of an unlawful electronic communication device; penalty - A person who (i) knowingly sells an unlawful electronic communication...
§ 18.2-190.4. Manufacture of an unlawful electronic communication device; penalty - A person who knowingly manufactures an unlawful electronic communication device...
§ 18.2-190.5. Separate offenses; penalty - For purposes of imposing criminal penalties for violations of §§...
§ 18.2-190.6. Restitution - The court may, in addition to any other sentence authorized...
§ 18.2-190.7. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2004, c. 995.
§ 18.2-190.8. Civil relief; damages - Any electronic communication service provider aggrieved by a violation of...
§ 18.2-191. Definitions - The following words and phrases as used in this article,...
§ 18.2-192. Credit card theft - (1) A person is guilty of credit card or credit...
§ 18.2-193. Credit card forgery - (1) A person is guilty of credit card forgery when:...
§ 18.2-194. Unauthorized possession of two or more signed credit cards or credit card numbers - When a person, other than the cardholder or a person...
§ 18.2-195. Credit card fraud; conspiracy; penalties - (1) A person is guilty of credit card fraud when,...
§ 18.2-195.1. Credit card factoring - A. Any authorized person who presents to the issuer or...
§ 18.2-195.2. Fraudulent application for credit card; penalties - A. A person shall be guilty of a Class 1...
§ 18.2-196. Criminal possession of credit card forgery devices - (1) A person is guilty of criminal possession of credit...
§ 18.2-196.1. Unlawful use of payment card scanning devices and re-encoders; penalty - A. Any person who with malicious intent uses a scanning...
§ 18.2-197. Criminally receiving goods and services fraudulently obtained - A person is guilty of criminally receiving goods and services...
§ 18.2-198. Obtaining airline, railroad, steamship, etc., ticket at discount price - A person who obtains at a discount price a ticket...
§ 18.2-198.1. Venue - Notwithstanding the provisions of § 19.2-244, a prosecution for a...
§ 18.2-199. Penalties for violation of article - Persons violating any provision of this article for which no...
§ 18.2-200. Failure to perform promise to deliver crop, etc., in return for advances - If any person obtain from another an advance of money,...
§ 18.2-200.1. Failure to perform promise for construction, etc., in return for advances - If any person obtain from another an advance of money,...
§ 18.2-201. Advances secured by fraudulent promise to perform agricultural labor - If any person enter into a contract of employment, oral...
§ 18.2-202. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2004, c. 459.
§ 18.2-204. False statement for the purpose of defrauding industrial sick benefit company - Any agent, physician or other person who shall knowingly or...
§ 18.2-204.1. Fraudulent use of birth certificates, etc.; penalty - A. Any person who obtains or possesses a fictitious birth...
§ 18.2-204.2. Manufacture, sale, etc., or possession of fictitious, facsimile or simulated official license or identification; penalty - A. Except as provided in subsection D of § 18.2-204.1,...
§ 18.2-204.3. Transfers for the sole or primary purpose of obtaining a lower unemployment tax rate; penalty - A. Any person who transfers or attempts to transfer any...
§ 18.2-205. False pretense in obtaining registration of cattle and other animals and giving false pedigree - Every person who by any false pretense shall obtain from...
§ 18.2-206. Procuring an animal, aircraft, vehicle or boat with intent to defraud - If any person procure any such animal, aircraft, vehicle, boat...
§ 18.2-207. Making false entry, etc., in marriage register, etc. - If any clerk of a court, commissioner of the revenue,...
§ 18.2-208. Making false statement, etc., for marriage record, etc. - If any person, upon whose information or statement any record...
§ 18.2-209. False publications - Any person who knowingly and willfully states, delivers or transmits...
§ 18.2-209.1. Penalties for false certificate or failure to give bond - A. If any clerk make a certificate as to any...
§ 18.2-209.2. Failure of clerk to give notice of appointment of special commissioner to collect purchase money or rent - If any clerk fail to give notice as required by...
§ 18.2-210. Stamping, etc., on newspapers, any word, etc., to cause belief it was done by publisher; circulating such newspapers - No person, without first obtaining the consent of the publisher...
§ 18.2-211. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2004, c. 459.
§ 18.2-212. Calling or summoning emergency medical services vehicle or firefighting apparatus without just cause; maliciously activating fire alarms; venue - A. Any person who without just cause therefor calls or...
§ 18.2-212.1. Unlawful for person not blind or incapacitated to carry white, white tipped with red or metallic cane - It is unlawful for any person, unless totally or partially...
§ 18.2-213. Simulation of warrants, processes, writs and notices - Any person who, for the purpose of collecting money, shall...
§ 18.2-213.1. Obtaining certification as small, women-owned, or minority-owned business by deception; penalty - A. Except as otherwise provided by § 18.2-498.3, a person...
§ 18.2-213.2. Filing false lien or encumbrance against another - Any person who maliciously files a lien or encumbrance in...
§ 18.2-214. Changing or removing, etc., trademarks, identification marks, etc. - Any person, firm, association or corporation who or which intentionally...
§ 18.2-214.1. Penalties for failure to report removal or alteration of identification or serial number on business machines - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association, or...
§ 18.2-215. Removal or alteration of identification numbers on household electrical appliances; possession of such appliances - No person, firm, association or corporation, either individually or in...
§ 18.2-216. Untrue, deceptive or misleading advertising, inducements, writings or documents - A. Any person, firm, corporation or association who, with intent...
§ 18.2-216.1. Unauthorized use of name or picture of any person; punishment - A person, firm, or corporation that knowingly uses for advertising...
§ 18.2-217. Advertising merchandise, etc., for sale with intent not to sell at price or terms advertised; prima facie evidence of violation - (a) Any person, firm, corporation or association who in any...
§ 18.2-218. Failure to indicate goods, etc., are "seconds," "irregulars," "secondhand," etc. - Any person, firm, corporation or association who in any manner...
§ 18.2-219. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1992, c. 768.
§ 18.2-220. Use of word "wholesale" or "wholesaler." - Any person, firm, corporation or association who in any manner...
§ 18.2-221. Advertising new or used automobiles or trucks - Any person, firm, corporation or association engaged in selling new...
§ 18.2-222. Misrepresentation as to source of merchandise; penalty - No person, firm, corporation or association selling or offering for...
§ 18.2-223. "Going out of business" sales; permit required - It shall be unlawful for any person to advertise, or...
§ 18.2-224. "Going out of business" sales; counties, cities and towns to issue permits; inspections; application for permit; inventory required; commingling of other goods prohibited; duration; additional permits; inclusion of permit number and dates... - Every county, town and city shall issue permits to retail...
§ 18.2-225. Misrepresentations as to agricultural products - Misrepresentation by advertising in the press or by radio or...
§ 18.2-226. Fraud and misrepresentation in sale of liquid fuels, lubricating oils and similar products - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or...
§ 18.2-227. Same; sale from pump indicating other brand - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or...
§ 18.2-228. Same; imitating indicia of other brands - It shall be unlawful, for any person, firm, association or...
§ 18.2-229. Same; false trade name or mixing brands - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or...
§ 18.2-230. Same; assisting in violation of §§ 18.2-226 through 18.2-229 - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or...
§ 18.2-231. Same; label required - There shall be firmly attached to or painted at or...
§ 18.2-232. Same; punishment for violation of §§ 18.2-226 through 18.2-231 - Any person, firm, association or corporation or any officer, agent...
§ 18.2-233. Sale of goods marked "sterling" and "sterling silver." - A person who makes or sells or offers to sell...
§ 18.2-234. Sale of goods marked "coin" and "coin silver." - A person who makes or sells or offers to sell...
§ 18.2-235. Regulating sale of merchandise made of gold - Any person who marks or sells or offers to sell...
§ 18.2-236. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2006, cc. 392 and 485, cl. 2,...
§ 18.2-237. Buying, etc., certain secondhand materials; intent; possession - If any person buy or receive secondhand grate baskets, keys,...
§ 18.2-238. Buying, etc., pig iron, etc., with intent to defraud; possession; evidence of intent - If any person buy or receive pig iron or railroad,...
§ 18.2-239. Pyramid promotional schemes; misdemeanor; definitions; contracts void - Every person who contrives, prepares, sets up, operates, advertises or...
§ 18.2-240. Same; injunction - Any attorney for the Commonwealth may petition a court of...
§ 18.2-241. Acceptance of promissory notes in payment for food sold at retail - As used in this section, "food" includes food, groceries and...
§ 18.2-242. Use of games, lotteries, etc., for promoting sale of certain products - (a) No retail establishment in this Commonwealth shall use any...
§ 18.2-242.1. Certain referral transactions in connection with consumer sales or leases prohibited; effect of such transactions - (a) For the purpose of this section, the term "consumer...
§ 18.2-243. When issuer or distributor of advertisements not guilty of violation; inadvertent error - A person, firm, corporation or association who or which, for...
§ 18.2-244. Right to select clientele or customers not affected - Nothing in this article shall be deemed to impair the...
§ 18.2-245. Enjoining violation of this article - (a) Any person, firm, corporation or association who violates any...
§ 18.2-246. Penalty in general for violations - Unless otherwise provided, any person who shall violate any provision...
§ 18.2-246.1. Title - This article shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 18.2-246.2. Definitions - "Conduct" or "conducts" includes initiating, concluding, participating in, or assisting...
§ 18.2-246.3. Money laundering; penalties - A. It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to...
§ 18.2-246.4. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2004, c. 995.
§ 18.2-246.5. Forfeiture of business license or registration upon conviction of sale or distribution of imitation controlled substance; money laundering - Any person, firm or corporation holding a license or registration...
§ 18.2-246.6. Definitions - For purposes of this article: "Adult" means a person who...
§ 18.2-246.7. Requirements for delivery sales - A. No person shall make a delivery sale of cigarettes...
§ 18.2-246.8. Age verification requirements - A. No person shall mail, ship, or otherwise deliver cigarettes...
§ 18.2-246.9. Disclosure requirements - The notice required under subdivision A 3 of § 18.2-246.8...
§ 18.2-246.10. Shipping requirements - Each person who mails, ships, or otherwise delivers cigarettes in...
§ 18.2-246.11. Registration and reporting requirements - A. Prior to making delivery sales or mailing, shipping, or...
§ 18.2-246.12. Collection of taxes - Each person accepting a purchase order for a delivery sale...
§ 18.2-246.13. Civil penalties; penalties - A. In addition to any criminal penalties for violations of...
§ 18.2-246.14. Counterfeit cigarettes; penalty; civil penalty - A. It is unlawful to distribute or possess counterfeit cigarettes....
§ 18.2-246.15. Enforcement - The Attorney General is authorized to enforce the provisions of...
Chapter 7 - Crimes Involving Health and Safety
§ 18.2-247. Use of terms "controlled substances," "marijuana," "Schedules I, II, III, IV, V, and VI," "imitation controlled substance" and "counterfeit controlled substance" in Title 18.2 - A. Wherever the terms "controlled substances" and "Schedules I, II,...
§ 18.2-248. Manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, or possessing with intent to manufacture, sell, give, or distribute a controlled substance or an imitation controlled substance prohibited; penalties - A. Except as authorized in the Drug Control Act (§...
§ 18.2-248.01. Transporting controlled substances into the Commonwealth; penalty - Except as authorized in the Drug Control Act (§ 54.1-3400...
§ 18.2-248.02. Allowing a minor or incapacitated person to be present during manufacture or attempted manufacture of methamphetamine prohibited; penalties - Any person 18 years of age or older who knowingly...
§ 18.2-248.03. Manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, or possessing with intent to manufacture, sell, give, or distribute methamphetamine; penalty - A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who...
§ 18.2-248.04. Methamphetamine Cleanup Fund established - There is hereby created in the state treasury a special...
§ 18.2-248.1. Penalties for sale, gift, distribution or possession with intent to sell, give or distribute marijuana - Except as authorized in the Drug Control Act (§ 54.1-3400...
§ 18.2-248.1:1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2014, cc. 674 and 719, cl. 2.
§ 18.2-248.2. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1981, c. 598.
§ 18.2-248.3. Professional use of imitation controlled substances - No civil or criminal liability shall be imposed by virtue...
§ 18.2-248.4. Advertisement of imitation controlled substances prohibited; penalty - It shall be a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person...
§ 18.2-248.5. Illegal stimulants and steroids; penalty - A. Except as authorized in the Drug Control Act (§...
§ 18.2-248.6. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1999, c. 348, cl. 2.
§ 18.2-248.8. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2012, cc. 160 and 252, cl. 2,...
§ 18.2-249. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2004, c. 995.
§ 18.2-250. Possession of controlled substances unlawful - A. It is unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally...
§ 18.2-250.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2021, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 550 and...
§ 18.2-251. Persons charged with first offense may be placed on probation; conditions; substance abuse screening, assessment treatment and education programs or services; drug tests; costs and fees; violations; discharge - Whenever any person who has not previously been convicted of...
§ 18.2-251.01. Substance abuse screening and assessment for felony convictions - A. When a person is convicted of a felony, except...
§ 18.2-251.02. Drug Offender Assessment and Treatment Fund - There is hereby established in the state treasury the Drug...
§ 18.2-251.03. Arrest and prosecution when experiencing or reporting overdoses - A. For purposes of this section, "overdose" means a life-threatening...
§ 18.2-251.1. Possession or distribution of marijuana for medical purposes permitted - A. No person shall be prosecuted under § 18.2-250 or...
§ 18.2-251.1:1. Possession or distribution of cannabis oil; public schools - No school nurse employed by a local school board, person...
§ 18.2-251.1:2. Possession or distribution of cannabis oil; nursing homes and certified nursing facilities; hospice and hospice facilities; assisted living facilities - No person employed by a nursing home, hospice, hospice facility,...
§ 18.2-251.1:3. Possession or distribution of cannabis oil, or industrial hemp; laboratories; Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services employees - A. No person employed by an analytical laboratory to retrieve,...
§ 18.2-251.2. Possession and distribution of flunitrazepam; enhanced penalty - Notwithstanding the provisions of §§ 54.1-3446 and 54.1-3452, the drug...
§ 18.2-251.3. Possession and distribution of gamma-butyrolactone; 1, 4-butanediol; enhanced penalty - Any person who knowingly manufactures, sells, gives, distributes or possesses...
§ 18.2-251.4. Defeating drug and alcohol screening tests; penalty - A. It is unlawful for a person to: 1. Sell,...
§ 18.2-252. Suspended sentence conditioned upon substance abuse screening, assessment, testing, and treatment or education - The trial judge or court trying the case of any...
§ 18.2-253. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2004, c. 995.
§ 18.2-254. Commitment of convicted person for treatment for substance abuse - A. Whenever any person who has not previously been convicted...
§ 18.2-254.1. Drug Treatment Court Act - A. This section shall be known and may be cited...
§ 18.2-254.2. Specialty dockets; report - A. The Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme...
§ 18.2-254.3. Behavioral Health Docket Act - A. This section shall be known and may be cited...
§ 18.2-255. Distribution of certain drugs to persons under 18 prohibited; penalty - A. Except as authorized in the Drug Control Act, Chapter...
§ 18.2-255.1. Distribution, sale or display of printed material advertising instruments for use in administering marijuana or controlled substances to minors; penalty - It shall be a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person...
§ 18.2-255.2. Prohibiting the sale or manufacture of drugs on or near certain properties; penalty - A. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture,...
§ 18.2-256. Conspiracy - Any person who conspires to commit any offense defined in...
§ 18.2-257. Attempts - (a) Any person who attempts to commit any offense defined...
§ 18.2-258. Certain premises deemed common nuisance; penalty - Any office, store, shop, restaurant, dance hall, theater, poolroom, clubhouse,...
§ 18.2-258.01. Enjoining nuisances involving illegal drug transactions - The attorney for the Commonwealth, or any citizen of the...
§ 18.2-258.02. Maintaining a fortified drug house; penalty - Any office, store, shop, restaurant, dance hall, theater, poolroom, clubhouse,...
§ 18.2-258.1. Obtaining drugs, procuring administration of controlled substances, etc., by fraud, deceit or forgery - A. It shall be unlawful for any person to obtain...
§ 18.2-258.2. Assisting individuals in unlawfully procuring prescription drugs; penalty - Unless otherwise specifically authorized by law, any person who, for...
§ 18.2-259. Penalties to be in addition to civil or administrative sanctions - Any penalty imposed for violation of this article or of...
§ 18.2-259.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2020, cc. 740 and 741, cl. 2.
§ 18.2-260. Prescribing, dispensing, etc., drug except as authorized in article and Drug Control Act; violations for which no penalty provided - It shall be unlawful for any person to prescribe, administer...
§ 18.2-260.1. Falsifying patient records - Any person who, with the intent to defraud, falsifies any...
§ 18.2-261. Monetary penalty - Any person licensed by the State Board of Pharmacy who...
§ 18.2-262. Witnesses not excused from testifying or producing evidence because of self-incrimination - No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing...
§ 18.2-263. Unnecessary to negative exception, etc.; burden of proof of exception, etc. - In any complaint, information, or indictment, and in any action...
§ 18.2-264. Inhaling drugs or other noxious chemical substances or causing, etc., others to do so - A. It is unlawful, except under the direction of a...