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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58111</law_id><section_number>18.2-286</section_number><catch_line>Shooting in or across road or in street</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>29.1-521.2</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="7">Crimes Involving Health and Safety</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Dangerous Use of Firearms or Other Weapons</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If any person discharges a firearm, crossbow, slingbow, arrowgun, or bow and arrow in or across any road, or within the right-of-way thereof, or in a street of any city or town, he shall, for each <span class="dictionary">offense</span>, be guilty of a Class 4 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.
		The provisions of this section shall not apply to firing ranges or shooting matches maintained, and supervised or approved, by <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement officers and military personnel in performance of their lawful duties.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 33.1-349; 1970, c. 322; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1993, c. 322; 1994, c. 18; 2017, c. 530; 2018, cc. 557, 558.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
