Virginia

Code of Virginia — Title 18.2, Crimes and Offenses

889 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 18 — 2-68 through 18.2-70. Repealed
• § 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• § 18.2-104 — Repealed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• § 18.2-105 — Repealed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• § 18.2-110 — Repealed
• § 18.2-110.1 — Mail theft; penalty
• § 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• § 18.2-111.1 — Repealed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• § 18.2-114 — Repealed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
• § 18.2-152.11 — 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
• § 18.2-152.2 — 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
• § 18.2-153 — 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 or emergency vehicle; penalty
• § 18.2-160.3 — Fare enforcement inspectors; failure to produce proof of payment of fare; penalty
• § 18.2-161 — Repealed
• § 18.2-162 — Damage or trespass to public services or utilities or critical infrastructure; penalties
• § 18.2-162.1 — Diverting wastewater line; diverting or wasting public water supply
• § 18.2-163 — Tampering with metering device; diverting service; civil liability
• § 18.2-164 — Unlawful use of, or injury to, telephone and telegraph lines; copying or obstructing messages; penalty
• § 18.2-165 — Unlawful use of, or injury to, television or radio signals and equipment
• § 18.2-165.1 — Tampering with or unlawful use of cable television service
• § 18.2-165.2 — Unlawful interference with emergency two-way radio communications; penalty
• § 18.2-166 — Disclosing or inducing disclosure of certain information concerning customers of telephone companies
• § 18.2-167 — Selling or transferring certain telephonic instruments
• § 18.2-167.1 — Interception or monitoring of customer telephone calls; penalty
• § 18.2-168 — Forging public records, etc
• § 18.2-169 — Forging, or keeping an instrument for forging, a seal
• § 18.2-170 — Forging coin or bank notes
• § 18.2-171 — Making or having anything designed for forging any writing, etc
• § 18.2-172 — Forging, uttering, etc., other writings
• § 18.2-172.1 — Falsifying or altering and fraudulently using transcripts or diplomas; penalty
• § 18.2-172.2 — Maliciously affixing another's signature to writing; penalty
• § 18.2-173 — Having in possession forged coin or bank notes
• § 18.2-174 — Impersonating law-enforcement officer; penalties
• § 18.2-174.1 — Impersonating certain public safety personnel; penalty
• § 18.2-174.2 — Impersonating any local, town, city, or county elected official; penalty
• § 18.2-175 — Unlawful wearing of officer's uniform or insignia; unlawful use of vehicle with word "police" shown thereon
• § 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
• § 18.2-177 — Illegal use of insignia
• § 18.2-177.1 — False representation of military status; penalty
• § 18.2-178 — Obtaining money or signature, etc., by false pretense
• § 18.2-178.1 — Financial exploitation of vulnerable adults; penalty
• § 18.2-178.2 — Financial exploitation by an agent; penalty
• § 18.2-179 — Unlawful operation of coin box telephone, parking meter, vending machine, etc
• § 18.2-180 — Manufacture, etc., of slugs, etc., for such unlawful use
• § 18.2-181 — Issuing bad checks, etc., larceny
• § 18.2-181.1 — Issuance of bad checks
• § 18.2-182 — Issuing bad checks on behalf of business firm or corporation in payment of wages; penalty
• § 18.2-182.1 — Issuing bad checks in payment of taxes
• § 18.2-183 — Issuance of bad check prima facie evidence of intent and knowledge; notice by certified or registered mail
• § 18.2-184 — Presumption as to notation attached to check, draft or order
• § 18.2-185 — Evidence and presumptions in malicious prosecution actions after issuance of bad check
• § 18.2-186 — False statements to obtain property or credit
• § 18.2-186.1 — Repealed
• § 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
• § 18.2-186.3 — Identity theft; penalty; restitution; victim assistance
• § 18.2-186.3:1 — Identity fraud; consumer reporting agencies; police reports
• § 18.2-186.4 — Use of a person's identity with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass; penalty
• § 18.2-186.4:1 — Internet publication of personal information of certain public officials
• § 18.2-186.5 — Expungement of false identity information from police and court records; Identity Theft Passport
• § 18.2-186.6 — Breach of personal information notification
• § 18.2-187 — Repealed
• § 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
• § 18.2-187.2 — Audiovisual recording of motion pictures unlawful; penalty
• § 18.2-188 — Defrauding hotels, motels, campgrounds, boardinghouses, etc
• § 18.2-188.1 — Defrauding person having a lien on an animal; penalty
• § 18.2-189 — Defrauding keeper of motor vehicles or watercraft
• § 18.2-190 — Fraudulent misrepresentation as to breed of bull or cattle
• § 18.2-190.1 — Definitions
• § 18.2-190.2 — Possession of an unlawful electronic communication device or equipment etc., used to manufacture such device; penalty
• § 18.2-190.3 — Sale of an unlawful electronic communication device; penalty
• § 18.2-190.4 — Manufacture of an unlawful electronic communication device; penalty
• § 18.2-190.5 — Separate offenses; penalty
• § 18.2-190.6 — Restitution
• § 18.2-190.7 — Repealed
• § 18.2-190.8 — Civil relief; damages
• § 18.2-191 — Definitions
• § 18.2-192 — Credit card or gift card theft; penalty
• § 18.2-193 — Credit card and gift card forgery; penalty
• § 18.2-194 — Unauthorized possession of two or more signed credit cards or credit card numbers
• § 18.2-195 — Credit card or gift card fraud; conspiracy; penalties
• § 18.2-195.1 — Credit card factoring
• § 18.2-195.2 — Fraudulent application for credit card; penalties
• § 18.2-196 — Criminal possession of credit card forgery devices
• § 18.2-196.1 — Unlawful use of payment card scanning devices and re-encoders; penalty
• § 18.2-197 — Criminally receiving goods and services fraudulently obtained; penalty
• § 18.2-198 — Obtaining airline, railroad, steamship, etc., ticket at discount price
• § 18.2-198.1 — Venue
• § 18.2-199 — Penalties for violation of article
• § 18.2-200 — Failure to perform promise to deliver crop, etc., in return for advances
• § 18.2-200.1 — Failure to perform promise for construction, etc., in return for advances
• § 18.2-201 — Advances secured by fraudulent promise to perform agricultural labor
• § 18.2-204 — False statement for the purpose of defrauding industrial sick benefit company
• § 18.2-204.1 — Fraudulent use of birth certificates, etc.; penalty
• § 18.2-204.2 — Manufacture, sale, etc., or possession of fictitious, facsimile or simulated official license or identification; penalty
• § 18.2-204.3 — Transfers for the sole or primary purpose of obtaining a lower unemployment tax rate; penalty
• § 18.2-205 — False pretense in obtaining registration of cattle and other animals and giving false pedigree
• § 18.2-206 — Procuring an animal, aircraft, vehicle or boat with intent to defraud
• § 18.2-207 — Making false entry, etc., in marriage register, etc