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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>64920</law_id><section_number>18.2-46.3:1</section_number><catch_line>Third or subsequent conviction of criminal street gang crimes</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>19.2-392.02</reference><reference>52-28.1</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="2.1">Crimes by Gangs</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Upon a <span class="dictionary">felony</span> <span class="dictionary">conviction</span> of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Prohibited criminal street gang participation; penalty" href="/18.2-46.2/">18.2-46.2</a> or <a class="law" title="Recruitment of persons for criminal street gang; penalty" href="/18.2-46.3/">18.2-46.3</a>, where it is alleged in the warrant, information or <span class="dictionary">indictment</span> on which a person is convicted that (i) such person has been previously convicted twice under any combination of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Prohibited criminal street gang participation; penalty" href="/18.2-46.2/">18.2-46.2</a> or <a class="law" title="Recruitment of persons for criminal street gang; penalty" href="/18.2-46.3/">18.2-46.3</a>, within 10 years of the third or subsequent <span class="dictionary">offense</span>, and (ii) each such <span class="dictionary">offense</span> occurred on different dates, such person is guilty of a Class 2 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>.</p></section></text><history>2004, cc. 396, 435, 847; 2023, cc. 396, 397.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
