                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

OBSTRUCTING OR INJURING CANAL, RAILROAD, POWER LINE, ETC (§ 18.2-153)

If any person maliciously obstruct, remove or injure any part of a canal,
railroad or urban, suburban or interurban electric railway, or any lines of any
electric power company, or any bridge or fixture thereof, or maliciously
obstruct, tamper with, injure or remove any machinery, engine, car, trolley,
supply or return wires or any other work thereof, or maliciously open, close,
displace, tamper with or injure any switch, switch point, switch lever, signal
lever or signal of any such company, whereby the life of any person on such
canal, railroad, urban, suburban or interurban electric railway, is put in
peril, he shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony; and, in the event of the death of
any such person resulting from such malicious act, the person so offending shall
be deemed guilty of murder, the degree to be determined by the jury or the court
trying the case without a jury.
		If any such act be committed unlawfully, but not maliciously, the person so
offending shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony; and in the event of the death of
any such person resulting from such unlawful act, the person so offending shall
be deemed guilty of involuntary manslaughter.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-147; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.