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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>57844</law_id><section_number>18.2-148</section_number><catch_line>Bona fide repossession under lien</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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="7">Damage to and Tampering With Property</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The provisions of &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Unauthorized use of animal, aircraft, vehicle or boat; consent; accessories or accomplices" href="/18.2-102/">18.2-102</a>, <a class="law" title="Breaking, injuring, defacing, destroying, or preventing the operation of vehicle, aircraft, boat, or vessel; penalties" href="/18.2-146/">18.2-146</a> and <a class="law" title="Entering or setting in motion, vehicle, aircraft, boat, locomotive or rolling stock of railroad; exceptions" href="/18.2-147/">18.2-147</a> shall not apply to a bona fide repossession of a vehicle, aircraft, boat or vessel by the holder of a <span class="dictionary">lien</span> on such vehicle, aircraft, boat or vessel, or by the agents or employees of such lienholder.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-168; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
