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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>78426</law_id><section_number>18.2-36</section_number><catch_line>How involuntary manslaughter punished</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>19.2-163</reference><reference>19.2-288</reference><reference>19.2-392.02</reference><reference>19.2-392.12</reference><reference>46.2-334</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="4">Crimes Against the Person</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Homicide</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p><span class="dictionary">Involuntary manslaughter</span> is punishable as a Class 5 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-25; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1982, c. 301.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
