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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76989</law_id><section_number>18.2-119</section_number><catch_line>Trespass after having been forbidden to do so; penalties</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-1717.1</reference><reference>18.2-308.1:1</reference><reference>19.2-169.1</reference><reference>19.2-169.2</reference><reference>19.2-169.3</reference><reference>19.2-303.2</reference><reference>19.2-310.2</reference><reference>19.2-327.15</reference><reference>19.2-392.12:1</reference><reference>19.2-392.6</reference><reference>2.2-2340</reference><reference>23.1-3208</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="5">Crimes Against Property</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="5">Trespass to Realty</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If any person without authority of <span class="dictionary">law</span> goes upon or remains upon the lands, buildings or premises of another, or any portion or area thereof, after having been forbidden to do so, either orally or in writing, by the owner, lessee, custodian, or the agent of any such person, or other person lawfully in charge thereof, or after having been forbidden to do so by a sign or signs posted by or at the direction of such persons or the agent of any such person or by the holder of any easement or other right-of-way authorized by the instrument creating such interest to post such signs on such lands, structures, premises or portion or area thereof at a place or places where it or they may be reasonably seen, or if any person, whether he is the owner, tenant or otherwise entitled to the use of such land, building or premises, goes upon, or remains upon such land, building or premises after having been prohibited from doing so by a <span class="dictionary">court</span> of competent <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> by an <span class="dictionary">order</span> issued pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Preliminary protective order" href="/16.1-253/">16.1-253</a>, <a class="law" title="Preliminary protective orders in cases of family abuse; confidentiality" href="/16.1-253.1/">16.1-253.1</a>, <a class="law" title="Emergency protective orders authorized in certain cases; penalty" href="/16.1-253.4/">16.1-253.4</a>, <a class="law" title="Abused, neglected, or abandoned children or children without parental care" href="/16.1-278.2/">16.1-278.2</a> through <a class="law" title="Status offenders" href="/16.1-278.6/">16.1-278.6</a>, <a class="law" title="Delinquent juveniles" href="/16.1-278.8/">16.1-278.8</a>, <a class="law" title="Criminal jurisdiction; protective orders; family offenses" href="/16.1-278.14/">16.1-278.14</a>, <a class="law" title="Custody or visitation, child or spousal support generally" href="/16.1-278.15/">16.1-278.15</a>, <a class="law" title="Protective order in cases of family abuse" href="/16.1-279.1/">16.1-279.1</a>, <a class="law" title="Emergency protective orders authorized" href="/19.2-152.8/">19.2-152.8</a>, <a class="law" title="Preliminary protective orders" href="/19.2-152.9/">19.2-152.9</a> or &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Protective order" href="/19.2-152.10/">19.2-152.10</a> or an <span class="dictionary">ex parte</span> <span class="dictionary">order</span> issued pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Court may make orders pending suit for divorce, custody or visitation, etc" href="/20-103/">20-103</a>, and after having been served with such <span class="dictionary">order</span>, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>. This section shall not be construed to affect in any way the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Trespass by hunters and fishers" href="/18.2-132/">18.2-132</a> through <a class="law" title="Right of certain hunters to go on lands of another; carrying firearms or bows and arrows prohibited" href="/18.2-136/">18.2-136</a>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-173; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1982, c. 169; 1987, cc. 625, 705; 1991, c. 534; 1998, cc. 569, 684; 2011, c. 195.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
