                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CUTTING OR DAMAGING TREES; DAMAGING BRIDGES; DAMAGING MARKERS; OBSTRUCTING
HIGHWAYS; PENALTY (§ 33.2-801)

Any person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor who:

1. Cuts or damages a tree within 50 feet of a highway so as to render it liable
to fall and leaves it standing;

2. Knowingly and willfully, without lawful authority, breaks down, destroys, or
damages any bridge or log placed across a stream for the accommodation of
pedestrians;

3. Obstructs any highway or any ditch made for the purpose of draining the
highway;

4. Willfully or maliciously displaces, removes, destroys, or damages any highway
sign or historical marker or any inscription thereon that is lawfully within a
highway; or

5. Puts or casts into any public highway any glass, bottles, glassware,
crockery, porcelain or pieces thereof, caltrops or any pieces of iron or hard or
sharp metal, or any nails, tacks, or sharp-pointed instruments of any kind,
likely in their nature to cut or puncture any tire of any vehicle or injure any
animal traveling thereon. This subdivision shall not apply to the use of any
tire deflation device by a law-enforcement officer while in the discharge of his
official duties, provided the device was approved for use by the Division of
Purchase and Supply.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 33-279; 1956, c. 676; 1970, c. 322, § 33.1-345; 1972, c.
65; 1980, c. 141; 1981, c. 19; 1988, c. 79; 1989, c. 727; 1997, c. 136; 2014, c.
805.