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VA Code § 18.2-52.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-52.1. Possession of infectious biological substances or radiological agents; penalties

A. Any person who possesses, with the intent thereby to injure another, an infectious biological substance or radiological agent is guilty of a Class 5 felony.B. Any person who (i) destroys or damages, or attempts to destroy or damage, any facility, equipment or material involved in the sale, manufacturing, storage or distribution of an infectious biological substance or radiological agent, with the intent to injure another by releasing the substance, or (ii) manufactures, sells, gives, distributes or uses an infectious biological substance or radiological agent with the intent to injure another is guilty of a Class 4 felony.C. Any person who maliciously and intentionally causes any other person bodily injury by means of an infectious biological substance or radiological agent is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by confinement in a state correctional facility for a period of not less than five years nor more than 30 years.D. For purposes of this section:An "infectious biological substance" includes any bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, or rickettsiae capable of causing death or serious bodily injury. "Infectious biological substance" does not include the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ) or any other related virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), syphilis, or hepatitis B.A "radiological agent" includes any substance able to release radiation at levels that are capable of causing death or serious bodily injury.1996, c. 769; 2002, cc. 588, 623, 816; 2004, c. 833; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 465.
VA Code § 18.2-52.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-52.2. Animal attack resulting from owner's disregard for human life; penalty

A. Any owner of an animal is guilty of a Class 6 felony if his willful act or omission in the care, control, or containment of such animal is so gross, wanton, and culpable as to show a reckless disregard for human life and is the proximate cause of such animal attacking and causing serious bodily injury to any person.B. The provisions of subsection A shall not apply to any animal that at the time of the act complained of was responding to pain or injury, was protecting itself, its kennel, its offspring, a person, or its owner's property, or was a police dog engaged in the performance of its duties at the time of the attack.C. The court may determine that a person convicted under this section shall be prohibited from owning, possessing, or residing on the same property with an animal of the type that led to such conviction.2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 464.
VA Code § 18.2-53 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-53. Shooting, etc., in committing or attempting a felony

If any person, in the commission of, or attempt to commit, felony, unlawfully shoot, stab, cut or wound another person he shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony.Code 1950, § 18.1-68; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.
VA Code § 18.2-53.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-53.1. Use or display of firearm in committing felony

It shall be unlawful for any person to use or attempt to use any pistol, shotgun, rifle, or other firearm or display such weapon in a threatening manner while committing or attempting to commit murder, rape, forcible sodomy, inanimate or animate object sexual penetration as defined in § 18.2-67.2, robbery, carjacking, burglary, malicious wounding as defined in § 18.2-51, malicious bodily injury to a law-enforcement officer as defined in § 18.2-51.1, aggravated malicious wounding as defined in § 18.2-51.2, malicious wounding by mob as defined in § 18.2-41 or abduction. Violation of this section shall constitute a separate and distinct felony and any person found guilty thereof shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of three years for a first conviction, and to a mandatory minimum term of five years for a second or subsequent conviction under the provisions of this section. Such punishment shall be separate and apart from, and shall be made to run consecutively with, any punishment received for the commission of the primary felony.1975, cc. 624, 628; 1976, c. 371; 1980, c. 333; 1982, c. 654; 1991, c. 506; 1992, cc. 191, 726; 1993, cc. 549, 835; 1994, c. 950; 2004, c. 461.
VA Code § 18.2-54 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-54. Conviction of lesser offenses under certain indictments

On any indictment for maliciously shooting, stabbing, cutting or wounding a person or by any means causing him bodily injury, with intent to maim, disfigure, disable or kill him, or of causing bodily injury by means of any acid, lye or other caustic substance or agent, the jury or the court trying the case without a jury may find the accused not guilty of the offense charged but guilty of unlawfully doing such act with the intent aforesaid, or of assault and battery if the evidence warrants.Code 1950, § 19.1-251; 1960, c. 366; 1975, cc. 14, 15.
VA Code § 18.2-54.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-54.1. Attempts to poison

If any person administers or attempts to administer any poison or destructive substance in food, drink, prescription or over-the-counter medicine, or otherwise, or poisons any spring, well, waterworks as defined in § 32.1-167, or reservoir of water with intent to kill or injure another person, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 felony.Code 1950, § 18.1-64; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1983, c. 129; 2006, c. 300.
VA Code § 18.2-54.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-54.2. Adulteration of food, drink, drugs, cosmetics, etc.; penalty

Any person who adulterates or causes to be adulterated any food, drink, prescription or over-the-counter medicine, cosmetic or other substance with the intent to kill or injure any individual who ingests, inhales or uses such substance shall be guilty of a Class 3 felony.1983, c. 129.
VA Code § 18.2-55 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-55. Bodily injuries caused by prisoners, state juvenile probationers and state and local adult probationers or adult parolees

A. It shall be unlawful for a person confined in a state, local or regional correctional facility as defined in § 53.1-1; in a secure facility or detention home as defined in § 16.1-228 or in any facility designed for the secure detention of juveniles; or while in the custody of an employee thereof to knowingly and willfully inflict bodily injury on:1. An employee thereof, or2. Any other person lawfully admitted to such facility, except another prisoner or person held in legal custody, or3. Any person who is supervising or working with prisoners or persons held in legal custody, or4. Any such employee or other person while such prisoner or person held in legal custody is committing any act in violation of § 53.1-203.B. It shall be unlawful for an accused, probationer or parolee under the supervision of, or being investigated by, (i) a probation or parole officer whose powers and duties are defined in § 16.1-237 or § 53.1-145, (ii) a local pretrial services officer associated with an agency established pursuant to Article 5 (§ 19.2-152.2) of Chapter 9 of Title 19.2, or (iii) a local community-based probation officer associated with an agency established pursuant to Article 9 (§ 9.1-173 et seq.) of Chapter 1 of Title 9.1, to knowingly and willfully inflict bodily injury on such officer while he is in the performance of his duty, knowing or having reason to know that the officer is engaged in the performance of his duty.Any person violating any provision of this section is guilty of a Class 5 felony.1975, cc. 14, 15; 1977, c. 553; 1982, c. 636; 1985, c. 508; 1996, c. 527; 1999, cc. 618, 658; 2001, cc. 818, 848; 2007, c. 133.
VA Code § 18.2-55.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-55.1. Hazing of youth gang members unlawful; criminal liability

It shall be unlawful to cause bodily injury by hazing (i) any member of a criminal street gang as defined in § 18.2-46.1, or (ii) a person seeking to become a member of a youth gang or criminal street gang. Any person found guilty of hazing is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.For the purposes of this section, "hazing" means to recklessly or intentionally endanger the health or safety of a person or to inflict bodily injury on a person in connection with or for the purpose of initiation, admission into or affiliation with or as a condition for continued membership in a youth gang or criminal street gang regardless of whether the person so endangered or injured participated voluntarily in the relevant activity.2004, c. 850; 2005, c. 843.
VA Code § 18.2-56 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-56. Hazing unlawful; civil and criminal liability; duty of school, etc., officials; penalty

It shall be unlawful to haze so as to cause bodily injury, any student at any school or institution of higher education.Any person found guilty thereof shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.Any person receiving bodily injury by hazing shall have a right to sue, civilly, the person or persons guilty thereof, whether adults or infants.The president or other presiding official of any school or institution of higher education receiving appropriations from the state treasury shall, upon satisfactory proof of the guilt of any student hazing another student, sanction and discipline such student in accordance with the institution's policies and procedures. The institution's policies and procedures shall provide for expulsions or other appropriate discipline based on the facts and circumstances of each case and shall be consistent with the model policies established by the Department of Education or the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, as applicable. The president or other presiding official of any school or institution of higher education receiving appropriations from the state treasury shall report hazing which causes bodily injury to the attorney for the Commonwealth of the county or city in which such school or institution of higher education is, who shall take such action as he deems appropriate.For the purposes of this section, "hazing" means to recklessly or intentionally endanger the health or safety of a student or students or to inflict bodily injury on a student or students in connection with or for the purpose of initiation, admission into or affiliation with or as a condition for continued membership in a club, organization, association, fraternity, sorority, or student body regardless of whether the student or students so endangered or injured participated voluntarily in the relevant activity.Code 1950, § 18.1-71; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 2003, cc. 62, 67; 2014, c. 627.
VA Code § 18.2-56.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-56.1. Reckless handling of firearms; reckless handling while hunting

A. It shall be unlawful for any person to handle recklessly any firearm so as to endanger the life, limb or property of any person. Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.A1. Any person who handles any firearm in a manner so gross, wanton, and culpable as to show a reckless disregard for human life and causes the serious bodily injury of another person resulting in permanent and significant physical impairment is guilty of a Class 6 felony.B. If this section is violated while the person is engaged in hunting, trapping or pursuing game, the trial judge may, in addition to the penalty imposed by the jury or the court trying the case without a jury, revoke such person's hunting or trapping license and privileges to hunt or trap while possessing a firearm for a period of one to five years.C. Upon a revocation pursuant to subsection B hereof, the clerk of the court in which the case is tried pursuant to this section shall forthwith send to the Department of Wildlife Resources (i) such person's revoked hunting or trapping license or notice that such person's privilege to hunt or trap while in possession of a firearm has been revoked and (ii) a notice of the length of revocation imposed. The Department shall keep a list which shall be furnished upon request to any law-enforcement officer, the attorney for the Commonwealth or court in this Commonwealth, and such list shall contain the names and addresses of all persons whose license or privilege to hunt or trap while in possession of a firearm has been revoked and the court which took such action.D. If any person whose license to hunt and trap, or whose privilege to hunt and trap while in possession of a firearm, has been revoked pursuant to this section, thereafter hunts or traps while in possession of a firearm, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor, and, in addition to any penalty imposed by the jury or the court trying the case without a jury, the trial judge may revoke such person's hunting or trapping license and privileges to hunt or trap while in possession of a firearm for a period of one year to life. The clerk of the court shall notify the Department of Wildlife Resources as is provided in subsection C herein.1977, c. 194; 1985, c. 182; 1991, c. 384; 2010, c. 183; 2011, c. 684; 2014, cc. 444, 579; 2020, c. 958.
VA Code § 18.2-56.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-56.2. Allowing access to firearms by children; penalty

A. It shall be unlawful for any person to recklessly leave a loaded, unsecured firearm in such a manner as to endanger the life or limb of any child under the age of fourteen. Any person violating the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.B. It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to authorize a child under the age of twelve to use a firearm except when the child is under the supervision of an adult. Any person violating this subsection shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. For purposes of this subsection, "adult" shall mean a parent, guardian, person standing in loco parentis to the child or a person twenty-one years or over who has the permission of the parent, guardian, or person standing in loco parentis to supervise the child in the use of a firearm.1991, c. 537; 1994, c. 832; 2020, c. 742.
VA Code § 18.2-57.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-57.01. Pointing laser at law-enforcement officer unlawful; penalty

If any person, knowing or having reason to know another person is a law-enforcement officer as defined in § 18.2-57, a probation or parole officer appointed pursuant to § 53.1-143, a correctional officer as defined in § 53.1-1, or a person employed by the Department of Corrections directly involved in the care, treatment or supervision of inmates in the custody of the Department engaged in the performance of his public duties as such, intentionally projects at such other person a beam or a point of light from a laser, a laser gun sight, or any device that simulates a laser, shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.2000, c. 350.
VA Code § 18.2-57.02 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-57.02. Disarming a law-enforcement or correctional officer; penalty

Any person who knows or has reason to know a person is a law-enforcement officer as defined in § 18.2-57, a correctional officer as defined in § 53.1-1, or a person employed by the Department of Corrections directly involved in the care, treatment or supervision of inmates in the custody of the Department, who is engaged in the performance of his duties as such and, with the intent to impede or prevent any such person from performing his official duties, knowingly and without the person's permission removes a chemical irritant weapon or impact weapon from the possession of the officer or deprives the officer of the use of the weapon is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. However, if the weapon removed or deprived in violation of this section is the officer's firearm or stun weapon as defined in § 18.2-308.1, he shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony. A violation of this section shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.2001, c. 2; 2007, c. 519.
VA Code § 18.2-57.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-57.2. Assault and battery against a family or household member; penalty

A. Any person who commits an assault and battery against a family or household member is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.B. Upon a conviction for assault and battery against a family or household member, where it is alleged in the warrant, petition, information, or indictment on which a person is convicted, that such person has been previously convicted of two offenses against a family or household member of (i) assault and battery against a family or household member in violation of this section, (ii) malicious wounding or unlawful wounding in violation of § 18.2-51, (iii) aggravated malicious wounding in violation of § 18.2-51.2, (iv) malicious bodily injury by means of a substance in violation of § 18.2-52, (v) strangulation in violation of § 18.2-51.6, or (vi) an offense under the law of any other jurisdiction which has the same elements of any of the above offenses, in any combination, all of which occurred within a period of 20 years, and each of which occurred on a different date, such person is guilty of a Class 6 felony.C. Whenever a warrant for a violation of this section is issued, the magistrate shall issue an emergency protective order as authorized by § 16.1-253.4, except if the defendant is a minor, an emergency protective order shall not be required.D. The definition of "family or household member" in § 16.1-228 applies to this section.1991, c. 238; 1992, cc. 526, 886; 1996, c. 866; 1997, c. 603; 1999, cc. 697, 721, 807; 2004, cc. 448, 738; 2009, c. 726; 2014, c. 660.
VA Code § 18.2-57.4 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-57.4. Reporting findings of assault and battery to military family advocacy representatives

If any active duty member of the United States Armed Forces is found guilty of a violation of § 18.2-57.2 or § 18.2-57.3, the court shall report the conviction to family advocacy representatives of the United States Armed Forces.2004, c. 681.
VA Code § 18.2-57.5 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-57.5. Certain matters not to constitute defenses

A. Another person's actual or perceived sex, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation is not in and of itself, or together with an oral solicitation, a defense to any charge brought under this article.B. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a defendant from exercising his constitutionally protected rights, including his right to call for evidence in his favor that is relevant and otherwise admissible in a criminal prosecution.2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 460.
VA Code § 18.2-58 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-58. Robbery; penalties

A. For the purposes of this section, "serious bodily injury" means the same as that term is defined in § 18.2-51.4.B. Any person who commits robbery is guilty of a felony and shall be punished as follows:1. Any person who commits robbery and causes serious bodily injury to or the death of any other person is guilty of a Class 2 felony.2. Any person who commits robbery by using or displaying a firearm, as defined in § 18.2-308.2:2, in a threatening manner is guilty of a Class 3 felony.3. Any person who commits robbery by using physical force not resulting in serious bodily injury or by using or displaying a deadly weapon other than a firearm in a threatening manner is guilty of a Class 5 felony.4. Any person who commits robbery by using threat or intimidation or any other means not involving a deadly weapon is guilty of a Class 6 felony.Code 1950, § 18.1-91; 1960, c. 358; 1966, c. 361; 1975, cc. 14, 15, 605; 1978, c. 608; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 534.
VA Code § 18.2-58.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-58.1. Carjacking; penalty

A. Any person who commits carjacking, as herein defined, shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for life or a term not less than fifteen years.B. As used in this section, "carjacking" means the intentional seizure or seizure of control of a motor vehicle of another with intent to permanently or temporarily deprive another in possession or control of the vehicle of that possession or control by means of partial strangulation, or suffocation, or by striking or beating, or by other violence to the person, or by assault or otherwise putting a person in fear of serious bodily harm, or by the threat or presenting of firearms, or other deadly weapon or instrumentality whatsoever. "Motor vehicle" shall have the same meaning as set forth in § 46.2-100.C. The provisions of this section shall not preclude the applicability of any other provision of the criminal law of the Commonwealth which may apply to any course of conduct which violates this section.1993, c. 500.
VA Code § 18.2-59 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-59. Extortion of money, property or pecuniary benefit

Any person who (i) threatens injury to the character, person, or property of another person, (ii) accuses him of any offense, (iii) threatens to report him as being illegally present in the United States, or (iv) knowingly destroys, conceals, removes, confiscates, withholds or threatens to withhold, or possesses any actual or purported passport or other immigration document, or any other actual or purported government identification document, of another person, and thereby extorts money, property, or pecuniary benefit or any note, bond, or other evidence of debt from him or any other person, is guilty of a Class 5 felony.For the purposes of this section, injury to property includes the sale, distribution, or release of identifying information defined in clauses (iii) through (xii) of subsection C of § 18.2-186.3, but does not include the distribution or release of such information by a person who does so with the intent to obtain money, property or a pecuniary benefit to which he reasonably believes he is lawfully entitled.Code 1950, § 18.1-184; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 2006, c. 313; 2007, cc. 453, 547; 2010, c. 298.
VA Code § 18.2-60.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally|Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 18.2-60.1. Threatening the Governor or his immediate family

Any person who shall knowingly and willfully send, deliver or convey, or cause to be sent, delivered or conveyed, to the Governor or his immediate family any threat to take the life of or inflict bodily harm upon the Governor or his immediate family, whether such threat be oral or written, is guilty of a Class 6 felony. A violation of this section may be prosecuted in the jurisdiction in which the communication was made or received or in the City of Richmond if venue cannot otherwise be established.1982, c. 568; 2020, c. 1002.