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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69277</law_id><section_number>18.2-46.3:3</section_number><catch_line>Enhanced punishment for gang activity taking place in a gang-free zone; penalties</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>Any person who violates &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Prohibited criminal street gang participation; penalty" href="/18.2-46.2/">18.2-46.2</a> (i) upon the property, including buildings and grounds, of any public or private elementary, secondary, or postsecondary school or institution of higher education; (ii) upon public property or any property open to public use within 1,000 feet of such school property; (iii) on any school bus as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/46.2-100/">46.2-100</a>; or (iv) upon the property, including buildings and grounds, of any publicly owned or operated community center or any publicly owned or operated recreation center is guilty of a <span class="dictionary">felony</span> punishable as specified in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Prohibited criminal street gang participation; penalty" href="/18.2-46.2/">18.2-46.2</a>, and shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of two years to be served consecutively with any other sentence. A person who violates subsection A of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Recruitment of persons for criminal street gang; penalty" href="/18.2-46.3/">18.2-46.3</a> upon any property listed in this section is guilty of a Class 5 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>, except that any person 18 years of age or older who violates subsection A of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Recruitment of persons for criminal street gang; penalty" href="/18.2-46.3/">18.2-46.3</a> upon any property listed in this section, when such <span class="dictionary">offense</span> is committed against a juvenile, is guilty of a Class 4 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. Any person who violates subsection B of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Recruitment of persons for criminal street gang; penalty" href="/18.2-46.3/">18.2-46.3</a> upon any property listed in this section is guilty of a Class 4 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. It is a violation of this section if the person violated &#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> on the property described in clauses (i) through (iii) regardless of where the person intended to commit such violation.</p></section></text><history>2005, cc. 764, 813; 2010, c. 364; 2013, cc. 761, 774; 2023, cc. 396, 397.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
