Virginia § 33.2-801 Cutting or damaging trees; damaging bridges; damaging markers; obstructing highways; penalty

Virginia Statutes

§ 33.2-801 — Cutting or damaging trees; damaging bridges; damaging markers; obstructing highways; penalty

Virginia § 33.2-801

Title 33.2HIGHWAYS AND OTHER SURFACE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

Subtitle IIMODES OF TRANSPORTATION: HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, FERRIES, RAIL, AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Ch. 8OFFENSES CONCERNING HIGHWAYS

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Bluebook

Va. Code Ann. § 33.2-801 (2026).

Text

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 instr

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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.

Legislative 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.