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This law was first created in 1999. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 623<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":[{"id":57160,"section_number":"16.1-260","catch_line":"Intake; petition; investigation","order_by":null,"url":"\/16.1-260\/"},{"id":78541,"section_number":"19.2-83.1","catch_line":"Report of arrest of school employees and adult students for certain offenses","order_by":null,"url":"\/19.2-83.1\/"},{"id":63586,"section_number":"53.1-202.3","catch_line":"Rate at which sentence credits may be earned; prerequisites","order_by":null,"url":"\/53.1-202.3\/"},{"id":58640,"section_number":"53.1-40.02","catch_line":"Conditional release of terminally ill prisoners","order_by":null,"url":"\/53.1-40.02\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":56020,"section_number":"19.2-297.1","catch_line":"Sentence of person twice previously convicted of certain violent felonies","order_by":null,"url":"\/19.2-297.1\/"}],"permalink":{"id":164849,"object_type":"law","relational_id":82923,"identifier":"18.2-42.1","token":"18.2\/4\/2\/18.2-42.1","url":"\/18.2-42.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/18.2-42.1\/","token":"18.2\/4\/2\/18.2-42.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Acts of violence by mob","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 18.2-42.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Any and every person composing a mob which commits an act of violence as defined in \u00a7 19.2-297.1<\/a> shall be guilty of that act of violence and, upon conviction<\/span>, shall be punished as provided in the section of this title which makes that act of violence unlawful.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nACTS OF VIOLENCE BY MOB (\u00a7 18.2-42.1)\n\nAny and every person composing a mob which commits an act of violence as defined\nin \u00a7 19.2-297.1 shall be guilty of that act of violence and, upon conviction,\nshall be punished as provided in the section of this title which makes that act\nof violence unlawful.\n\nHISTORY: 1999, c. 623.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}