                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ACTION FOR INJURY TO CEMETERY PROPERTY (§ 8.01-44.6)

The owner or operator of a cemetery company may bring an action to recover
damages sustained, together with costs and reasonable attorneys&#8217; fees,
against any person who willfully or maliciously destroys, mutilates, defaces,
injures, or removes any tomb, monument, gravestone, or other structure placed
within any cemetery, graveyard, or place of burial, or within any lot belonging
to any memorial or monumental association, or any fence, railing, or other work
for the protection or ornament of any tomb, monument, gravestone, or other
structure aforesaid, or of any cemetery lot within any cemetery. The cemetery
owner or operator may recover, as part of damages sustained, the cost of repair
or replacement of damaged property, including any labor costs, regardless of
whether the property damaged is owned by the cemetery or by another person.

HISTORY: 2004, c. 203.