                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

INJURING, ETC., ANY PROPERTY, MONUMENT, ETC (§ 18.2-137)

A. If any person unlawfully destroys, defaces, damages, or removes without the
intent to steal any property, real or personal, not his own, or breaks down,
destroys, defaces, damages, or removes without the intent to steal, any monument
or memorial for war veterans, not his own, described in &#xA7; 15.2-1812; any
monument erected to mark the site of any engagement fought during the Civil War,
or any memorial to designate the boundaries of any city, town, tract of land, or
any tree marked for that purpose, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor,
provided that the court may, in its discretion, dismiss the charge if the
locality or organization that owns or is responsible for maintaining the injured
property, monument, or memorial files a written affidavit with the court stating
it has received full payment for the injury.

B. If any person who is not the owner of such property intentionally causes such
injury, he is guilty of (i) a Class 1 misdemeanor if the value of or damage to
the property, memorial, or monument is less than $1,000 or (ii) a Class 6 felony
if the value of or damage to the property, memorial, or monument is $1,000 or
more. The amount of loss caused by the destruction, defacing, damage, or removal
of such property, memorial, or monument may be established by proof of the fair
market cost of repair or fair market replacement value. Upon conviction, the
court may order that the defendant pay restitution.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-172; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15, 598; 1990, c.
933; 1999, c. 625; 2020, cc. 1100, 1101.