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.

• § 18.2-56 — 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• § 18.2-57.1 — Repealed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• § 18.2-62 — Repealed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• § 18.2-64 — Repealed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• § 18.2-65 — Repealed
• § 18.2-66 — Repealed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
• § 18.2-67.10 — General definitions
• § 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
• § 18.2-71 — 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