Virginia Code — 18.2
Browse 960 sections in division 18.2 of the Virginia code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 18.2-1. Repealing clause
- § 18.2-2. Effect of repeal of Title 18.1 and enactment of this title
- § 18.2-3. Certain notices, recognizances and processes validated
- § 18.2-4. References to former sections, articles and chapters of Title 18.1 and others
- § 18.2-5. Repealed
- § 18.2-6. Meaning of certain terms
- § 18.2-7. Criminal act not to merge civil remedy
- § 18.2-8. Felonies, misdemeanors and traffic infractions defined
- § 18.2-9. Classification of criminal offenses
- § 18.2-10. Punishment for conviction of felony; penalty
- § 18.2-11. Punishment for conviction of misdemeanor
- § 18.2-12. Same; where no punishment or maximum punishment prescribed
- § 18.2-12.1. Mandatory minimum punishment; definition
- § 18.2-13. Same; by reference
- § 18.2-14. How unclassified offenses punished
- § 18.2-15. Place of punishment
- § 18.2-16. How common-law offenses punished
- § 18.2-17. Repealed
- § 18.2-18. How principals in second degree and accessories before the fact punished
- § 18.2-19. How accessories after the fact punished; certain exceptions
- § 18.2-20. Reserved
- § 18.2-21. When and where accessories tried; how indicted
- § 18.2-22. Conspiracy to commit felony
- § 18.2-23. Conspiring to trespass or commit larceny
- § 18.2-23.1. Completed substantive offense bars conviction for conspiracy
- § 18.2-24. Reserved
- § 18.2-25. Attempts to commit Class 1 felony offenses; how punished
- § 18.2-26. Attempts to commit felonies other than Class 1 felony offenses; how punished
- § 18.2-27. Attempts to commit misdemeanors; how punished
- § 18.2-28. Maximum punishment for attempts
- § 18.2-29. Criminal solicitation; penalty
- § 18.2-30. Murder and manslaughter declared felonies
- § 18.2-31. Aggravated murder defined; punishment
- § 18.2-32. First and second degree murder defined; punishment
- § 18.2-32.1. Murder of a pregnant woman; penalty
- § 18.2-32.2. Killing a fetus; penalty
- § 18.2-32.3. Human infant; independent and separate existence
- § 18.2-33. Felony homicide defined; punishment
- § 18.2-34. Reserved
- § 18.2-35. How voluntary manslaughter punished
- § 18.2-36. How involuntary manslaughter punished
- § 18.2-36.1. Certain conduct punishable as involuntary manslaughter
- § 18.2-36.2. Involuntary manslaughter; operating a watercraft while under the influence; penalties
- § 18.2-36.3. Involuntary manslaughter; certain drug offenses
- § 18.2-37. How and where homicide prosecuted and punished if death occur without the Commonwealth
- § 18.2-37.1. Certain matters not to constitute defenses
- § 18.2-38. "Mob" defined
- § 18.2-39. "Lynching" defined
- § 18.2-40. Lynching deemed murder
- § 18.2-41. Shooting, stabbing, etc., with intent to maim, kill, etc., by mob
- § 18.2-42. Assault or battery by mob
- § 18.2-42.1. Acts of violence by mob
- § 18.2-43. Apprehension and prosecution of participants in lynching
- § 18.2-44. Civil liability for lynching
- § 18.2-45. Persons suffering death from mob attempting to lynch another person
- § 18.2-46. Venue
- § 18.2-46.1. Definitions
- § 18.2-46.2. Prohibited criminal street gang participation; penalty
- § 18.2-46.3. Recruitment of persons for criminal street gang; penalty
- § 18.2-46.3:1. Third or subsequent conviction of criminal street gang crimes
- § 18.2-46.3:2. Forfeiture
- § 18.2-46.3:3. Enhanced punishment for gang activity taking place in a gang-free zone; penalties
- § 18.2-46.4. Definitions
- § 18.2-46.5. Committing, conspiring and aiding and abetting acts of terrorism prohibited; penalty
- § 18.2-46.6. Possession, manufacture, distribution, etc., of weapon of terrorism or hoax device prohibited; penalty
- § 18.2-46.7. Act of bioterrorism against agricultural crops or animals; penalty
- § 18.2-46.8. Venue
- § 18.2-46.9. Repealed
- § 18.2-46.10. Violation of sections within article separate and distinct offenses
- § 18.2-47. Abduction and kidnapping defined; forced labor; punishment
- § 18.2-48. Abduction with intent to extort money or for immoral purpose
- § 18.2-48.1. Abduction by prisoners or committed persons; penalty
- § 18.2-49. Threatening, attempting, or assisting in such abduction; penalty
- § 18.2-49.1. Violation of court order regarding custody and visitation; penalty
- § 18.2-50. Disclosure of information and assistance to law-enforcement officers required
- § 18.2-50.1. Repealed
- § 18.2-50.2. Emergency control of telephone service in hostage or barricaded person situation
- § 18.2-50.3. Enticing, etc., another into a dwelling house with intent to commit certain felonies; penalty
- § 18.2-51. Shooting, stabbing, etc., with intent to maim, kill, etc
- § 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
- § 18.2-51.2. Aggravated malicious wounding; penalty
- § 18.2-51.3. Prohibition against reckless endangerment of others by throwing objects from places higher than one story; penalty
- § 18.2-51.4. Maiming, etc., of another resulting from driving while intoxicated
- § 18.2-51.5. Maiming, etc., of another resulting from operating a watercraft while intoxicated; penalty
- § 18.2-51.6. Strangulation or suffocation of another; penalty
- § 18.2-51.7. Female genital mutilation; penalty
- § 18.2-52. Malicious bodily injury by means of any caustic substance or agent or use of any explosive or fire
- § 18.2-52.1. Possession of infectious biological substances or radiological agents; penalties
- § 18.2-52.2. Animal attack resulting from owner's disregard for human life; penalty
- § 18.2-53. Shooting, etc., in committing or attempting a felony
- § 18.2-53.1. Use or display of firearm in committing felony
- § 18.2-54. Conviction of lesser offenses under certain indictments
- § 18.2-54.1. Attempts to poison
- § 18.2-54.2. Adulteration of food, drink, drugs, cosmetics, etc.; penalty
- § 18.2-55. Bodily injuries caused by prisoners, state juvenile probationers and state and local adult probationers or adult parolees
- § 18.2-55.1. Hazing of youth gang members unlawful; criminal liability
- § 18.2-56. Hazing unlawful; civil and criminal liability; duty of school, etc., officials; penalty
- § 18.2-56.1. Reckless handling of firearms; reckless handling while hunting
- § 18.2-56.2. Allowing access to firearms by children; penalty
- § 18.2-57. Assault and battery; penalty
- § 18.2-57.01. Pointing laser at law-enforcement officer unlawful; penalty
- § 18.2-57.02. Disarming a law-enforcement or correctional officer; penalty
- § 18.2-57.1. Repealed
- § 18.2-57.2. Assault and battery against a family or household member; penalty
- § 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
- § 18.2-57.4. Reporting findings of assault and battery to military family advocacy representatives
- § 18.2-57.5. Certain matters not to constitute defenses
- § 18.2-58. Robbery; penalties
- § 18.2-58.1. Carjacking; penalty
- § 18.2-59. Extortion of money, property or pecuniary benefit
- § 18.2-59.1. Sexual extortion; penalty
- § 18.2-60. Threats of death or bodily injury to a person or member of his family; threats of death or discharge of a firearm on school property; threats of death or bodily injury to health care providers; penalties
- § 18.2-60.1. Threatening the Governor or his immediate family
- § 18.2-60.2. Members of the Governor's immediate family
- § 18.2-60.3. Stalking; penalty
- § 18.2-60.4. Violation of protective orders; penalty
- § 18.2-60.5. Unauthorized use of electronic tracking device; penalty
- § 18.2-61. Rape
- § 18.2-61.1. Testing of certain persons for sexually transmitted infections
- § 18.2-62. Repealed
- § 18.2-63. Carnal knowledge of child between thirteen and fifteen years of age
- § 18.2-63.1. Death of victim
- § 18.2-64. Repealed
- § 18.2-64.1. Carnal knowledge of certain minors
- § 18.2-64.2. Carnal knowledge of a person detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer or an inmate, parolee, probationer, juvenile detainee, pretrial defendant or posttrial offender, or confidential informant; penalty
- § 18.2-65. Repealed
- § 18.2-66. Repealed
- § 18.2-67. Depositions of complaining witnesses in cases of criminal sexual assault and attempted criminal sexual assault
- § 18.2-67.01. Not in effect
- § 18.2-67.1. Forcible sodomy
- § 18.2-67.2. Object sexual penetration; penalty
- § 18.2-67.2:1. Repealed
- § 18.2-67.3. Aggravated sexual battery; penalty
- § 18.2-67.4. Sexual battery
- § 18.2-67.4:1. Infected sexual battery; penalty
- § 18.2-67.4:2. Sexual abuse of a child under 15 years of age; penalty
- § 18.2-67.5. Attempted rape, forcible sodomy, object sexual penetration, aggravated sexual battery, and sexual battery
- § 18.2-67.5:1. Punishment upon conviction of third misdemeanor offense
- § 18.2-67.5:2. Punishment upon conviction of certain subsequent felony sexual assault
- § 18.2-67.5:3. Punishment upon conviction of certain subsequent violent felony sexual assault
- § 18.2-67.6. Proof of physical resistance not required
- § 18.2-67.7. Admission of evidence (Supreme Court Rule 2:412 derived from this section)
- § 18.2-67.7:1. Evidence of similar crimes in child sexual offense cases (Supreme Court Rule 2:413 derived from this section)
- § 18.2-67.8. Closed preliminary hearings
- § 18.2-67.9. Testimony by child victims and witnesses using two-way closed-circuit television or other securely encrypted two-way audio and video technology
- § 18.2-67.9:1. Use of a certified facility dog for testimony in a criminal proceeding
- § 18.2-67.10. General definitions
- § 18.2-68. Repealed
- § 18.2-71. Producing abortion or miscarriage, etc.; penalty
- § 18.2-71.1. Partial birth infanticide; penalty
- § 18.2-72. When abortion lawful during first trimester of pregnancy
- § 18.2-73. When abortion lawful during second trimester of pregnancy
- § 18.2-74. When abortion or termination of pregnancy lawful after second trimester of pregnancy
- § 18.2-74.1. Abortion, etc., when necessary to save life of woman
- § 18.2-74.2. Repealed
- § 18.2-75. Conscience clause
- § 18.2-76. Informed written consent required
- § 18.2-76.1. Encouraging or promoting abortion
- § 18.2-76.2. Repealed
- § 18.2-77. Burning or destroying dwelling house, etc
- § 18.2-78. What not deemed dwelling house
- § 18.2-79. Burning or destroying meeting house, etc
- § 18.2-80. Burning or destroying any other building or structure
- § 18.2-81. Burning or destroying personal property, standing grain, etc
- § 18.2-82. Burning building or structure while in such building or structure with intent to commit felony
- § 18.2-83. Threats to bomb, damage, or discharge a firearm within or at buildings or means of transportation; false information as to danger to such buildings, etc.; punishment; venue
- § 18.2-84. Causing, inciting, etc., commission of act proscribed by § 18.2-83
- § 18.2-85. Manufacture, possession, use, etc., of fire bombs or explosive materials or devices; penalties
- § 18.2-86. Setting fire to woods, fences, grass, etc
- § 18.2-87. Setting woods, etc., on fire intentionally whereby another is damaged or jeopardized
- § 18.2-87.1. Setting off chemical bombs capable of producing smoke in certain public buildings
- § 18.2-88. Carelessly damaging property by fire
- § 18.2-89. Burglary; how punished
- § 18.2-90. Entering dwelling house, etc., with intent to commit murder, rape, robbery or arson; penalty
- § 18.2-91. Entering dwelling house, etc., with intent to commit larceny, assault and battery or other felony
- § 18.2-92. Breaking and entering dwelling house with intent to commit other misdemeanor
- § 18.2-93. Entering bank, armed, with intent to commit larceny
- § 18.2-94. Possession of burglarious tools, etc
- § 18.2-95. Grand larceny defined; how punished
- § 18.2-96. Petit larceny defined; how punished
- § 18.2-96.1. Identification of certain personalty
- § 18.2-97. Larceny of certain animals and poultry
- § 18.2-97.1. Removal of a transmitting device; penalty
- § 18.2-98. Larceny of bank notes, checks, etc., or any book of accounts
- § 18.2-98.1. Repealed
- § 18.2-99. Larceny of things fixed to the freehold
- § 18.2-100. Removal of crop by tenant before rents and advances are satisfied
- § 18.2-101. Selling, etc., of goods distrained or levied on
- § 18.2-102. Unauthorized use of animal, aircraft, vehicle or boat; consent; accessories or accomplices
- § 18.2-102.1. Removal of shopping cart from store premises
- § 18.2-102.2. Unauthorized use of dairy milk cases or milk crates; penalty
- § 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
- § 18.2-103.1. Organized retail theft; penalty
- § 18.2-104. Repealed
- § 18.2-104.1. Liability upon conviction under § 18.2-103
- § 18.2-105. Repealed
- § 18.2-105.1. Detention of suspected shoplifter
- § 18.2-105.2. Manufacture, sale, etc., of devices to shield against electronic detection of shoplifting prohibited; penalty
- § 18.2-106. "Agents of the merchant" defined
- § 18.2-107. Theft or destruction of public records by others than officers
- § 18.2-108. Receiving, etc., stolen goods
- § 18.2-108.01. Larceny with intent to sell or distribute; sale of stolen property; penalty
- § 18.2-108.1. Receipt of stolen firearm
- § 18.2-109. Receipt or transfer of possession of stolen vehicle, aircraft or boat
- § 18.2-110.1. Mail theft; penalty
- § 18.2-110. Repealed
- § 18.2-111. Embezzlement deemed larceny; indictment
- § 18.2-111.1. Repealed
- § 18.2-111.2. Failure to pay withheld child support; embezzlement
- § 18.2-112. Embezzlement by officers, etc., of public or other funds; default in paying over funds evidence of guilt
- § 18.2-112.1. Misuse of public assets; penalty
- § 18.2-113. Fraudulent entries, etc., in accounts by officers or clerks of financial institutions, joint stock companies or corporations; penalty
- § 18.2-114. Repealed
- § 18.2-114.1. When collection of money by commissioner, etc., larceny
- § 18.2-115. Fraudulent conversion or removal of property subject to lien or title to which is in another
- § 18.2-115.1. Unlawful sublease of a motor vehicle; penalty
- § 18.2-116. Failure to pay for or return goods delivered for selection or approval
- § 18.2-117. Failure of bailee to return animal, aircraft, vehicle or boat
- § 18.2-118. Fraudulent conversion or removal of leased personal property
- § 18.2-119. Trespass after having been forbidden to do so; penalties
- § 18.2-119.1. Validity of signs forbidding trespass; penalty
- § 18.2-120. Instigating, etc., such trespass by others; preventing service to persons not forbidden to trespass
- § 18.2-121. Entering property of another for purpose of damaging it, etc.; penalties
- § 18.2-121.1. Permitting certain animals to run at large
- § 18.2-121.2. Trespass by spotlight on agricultural land
- § 18.2-121.3. Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; penalty
- § 18.2-122. Repealed
- § 18.2-123. Repealed
- § 18.2-124. Jurisdiction over offenses committed in Capitol Square
- § 18.2-125. Trespass at night upon any cemetery
- § 18.2-126. Violation of sepulture; defilement of a dead human body; penalties
- § 18.2-127. Injuries to churches, church property, cemeteries, burial grounds, etc.; penalty
- § 18.2-128. Trespass upon church or school property
- § 18.2-129. Repealed
- § 18.2-130. Peeping or spying into dwelling or enclosure
- § 18.2-130.1. Peeping or spying into dwelling or occupied building by electronic device or unmanned aircraft system; penalty
- § 18.2-131. Trespass upon licensed shooting preserve
- § 18.2-132. Trespass by hunters and fishers
- § 18.2-132.1. Trespass by hunters using dogs; penalty
- § 18.2-133. Refusal of person on land, etc., of another to identify himself
- § 18.2-134. Trespass on posted property
- § 18.2-134.1. Method of posting lands
- § 18.2-135. Destruction of posted signs; posting land of another
- § 18.2-136. Right of certain hunters to go on lands of another; carrying firearms or bows and arrows prohibited
- § 18.2-136.1. Enforcement of §§ 18.2-131 through 18.2-135
- § 18.2-137. Injuring, etc., any property, monument, etc
- § 18.2-138. Damaging public buildings, etc.; penalty
- § 18.2-138.1. Repealed
- § 18.2-139. Injuries to trees, fences or herbage on grounds of Capitol, or in any public square
- § 18.2-140. Destruction of trees, shrubs, etc
- § 18.2-141. Cutting or destroying trees; carrying axe, saw, etc., while hunting
- § 18.2-142. Repealed
- § 18.2-143. Pulling down fences or leaving open gates
- § 18.2-144. Maiming, killing or poisoning animals, fowl, etc
- § 18.2-144.1. Prohibition against killing or injuring police animals; penalty
- § 18.2-144.2. Prohibition against making a false representation of ownership of an animal to a public or private animal shelter; penalty
- § 18.2-145. Protection of homing pigeons
- § 18.2-145.1. Damaging or destroying research farm product; penalty; restitution
- § 18.2-146. Breaking, injuring, defacing, destroying, or preventing the operation of vehicle, aircraft, boat, or vessel; penalties
- § 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
- § 18.2-146.2. Interference with commercial fishing vessels or activity; penalty
- § 18.2-147. Entering or setting in motion, vehicle, aircraft, boat, locomotive or rolling stock of railroad; exceptions
- § 18.2-147.1. Breaking and entering into railroad cars, motortrucks, aircraft, etc., or pipeline systems
- § 18.2-147.2. Devices for puncturing motor vehicle tires
- § 18.2-148. Bona fide repossession under lien
- § 18.2-149. Injury to hired animal, aircraft, vehicle or boat
- § 18.2-150. Willfully destroying vessel, etc
- § 18.2-151. Opening or carrying away pumps, etc., used for dispensing gasoline, etc
- § 18.2-151.1. Injuring, destroying, removing, or tampering with firefighting equipment; penalty
- § 18.2-152. Stealing from or tampering with parking meter, vending machine, pay telephone, etc
- § 18.2-152.1. Short title
- § 18.2-152.2. Definitions; computer crimes
- § 18.2-152.3. Computer fraud; penalty
- § 18.2-152.3:1. Transmission of unsolicited commercial electronic mail (spam); penalty
- § 18.2-152.4. Computer trespass; penalty
- § 18.2-152.5. Computer invasion of privacy; penalties
- § 18.2-152.5:1. Using a computer to gather identifying information; penalties
- § 18.2-152.6. Theft of computer services; penalties
- § 18.2-152.7. Personal trespass by computer; penalty
- § 18.2-152.7:1. Harassment by computer; penalty
- § 18.2-152.7:2. Using computer to commit a scheme involving false representations; penalty
- § 18.2-152.8. Property capable of embezzlement
- § 18.2-152.9. Repealed
- § 18.2-152.11. Article not exclusive
- § 18.2-152.12. Civil relief; damages
- § 18.2-152.13. Repealed
- § 18.2-152.14. Computer as instrument of forgery
- § 18.2-152.15. Encryption used in criminal activity
- § 18.2-152.16. Repealed
- § 18.2-152.17. Fraudulent procurement, sale, or receipt of telephone records
- § 18.2-153. Obstructing or injuring canal, railroad, power line, etc
- § 18.2-154. Shooting at or throwing missiles, etc., at train, car, vessel, etc.; penalty
- § 18.2-155. Injuring, etc., signal used by railroad
- § 18.2-156. Taking or removing waste or packing from journal boxes
- § 18.2-157. Injury to fences or cattle stops along line of railroad
- § 18.2-158. Driving, etc., animal on track to recover damages
- § 18.2-159. Trespassing on railroad track
- § 18.2-160. Trespassing on railroad trains
- § 18.2-160.1. Boarding or riding transportation district train without lawful payment of fare; penalty
- § 18.2-160.2. Trespassing on public transportation; penalty