                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

INJURIES TO TREES, FENCES OR HERBAGE ON GROUNDS OF CAPITOL, OR IN ANY PUBLIC
SQUARE (§ 18.2-139)

If any person:

1. Cut down, pull up, girdle or otherwise injure or destroy any tree growing in
the grounds of the Capitol, or in any public square or grounds, without the
consent of the Governor, or of the circuit court of the county or city in which
such grounds or square is situated; or

2. Willfully and maliciously injure the fences or herbage of the Capitol
grounds, or of any such square or grounds,
			he shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-180; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.