                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

BURNING OR DESTROYING PERSONAL PROPERTY, STANDING GRAIN, ETC (§ 18.2-81)

If any person maliciously, or with intent to defraud an insurance company or
other person, set fire to or burn or destroy by any explosive device or
substance, or cause to be burned, or destroyed by any explosive device or
substance, or aid, counsel, or procure the burning or destroying by any
explosive device or substance, of any personal property, standing grain or other
crop, he shall, if the thing burnt or destroyed be of the value of $1,000 or
more, be guilty of a Class 4 felony; and if the thing burnt or destroyed be of
less value, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 18.1-79, 18.1-85; 1960, c. 358; 1972, c. 53; 1975, cc.
14, 15; 1981, c. 197; 2018, cc. 764, 765; 2020, cc. 89, 401.