Code of Virginia
Title 18.2. Crimes and Offenses Generally
Title 18.2. Crimes and Offenses Generally
6/16/2025
Title 18.2. Crimes and Offenses Generally (2024 Updates)
- Chapter 4. Crimes Against the Person
- Article 3. Kidnapping and Related Offenses
- § 18.2-47
- Abduction and kidnapping defined; forced labor; punishment
- Article 4. Assaults and Bodily Woundings
- § 18.2-57
- Assault and battery; penalty
- Article 6. Extortion and Other Threats
- § 18.2-60.4
- Violation of protective orders; penalty
- Article 7. Criminal Sexual Assault
- § 18.2-64.2
- Carnal knowledge of a person detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer or an inmate, parolee, probationer, juvenile detainee, pretrial defendant or posttrial offender, or confidential informant; penalty
- § 18.2-67.4
- Sexual battery
- Chapter 5. Crimes Against Property
- Article 3. Larceny and Receiving Stolen Goods
- § 18.2-95
- Grand larceny defined; how punished
- Article 4. Embezzlement and Fraudulent Conversions
- § 18.2-111
- Embezzlement deemed larceny; indictment
- Article 5. Trespass to Realty
- § 18.2-121
- Entering property of another for purpose of damaging it, etc.; penalties
- Article 7. Damage to and Tampering with Property
- § 18.2-146.2
- Interference with commercial fishing vessels or activity; penalty
- Chapter 6. Crimes Involving Fraud
- Article 10. Cigarette Delivery Sale Requirements
- § 18.2-246.8
- Age verification requirements
- Chapter 7. Crimes Involving Health and Safety
- Article 1. Drugs
- § 18.2-251
- Persons charged with first offense may be placed on probation; conditions; substance abuse screening, assessment treatment and education programs or services; drug tests; costs and fees; violations; discharge
- § 18.2-251.02
- Drug Offender Assessment and Treatment Fund
- § 18.2-251.1:1
- Possession or distribution of cannabis oil; public schools
- § 18.2-251.1:2
- Possession or distribution of cannabis oil; nursing homes and certified nursing facilities; hospice and hospice facilities; assisted living facilities
- § 18.2-251.5
- Manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, or possessing xylazine; penalties
- § 18.2-254.1
- Recovery Court Act
- Article 2. Driving Motor Vehicle, Etc., While Intoxicated
- § 18.2-267
- Preliminary analysis of breath to determine alcoholic content of blood
- § 18.2-271.2
- Commission on VASAP; purpose; membership; terms; meetings; staffing; compensation and expenses; chairman's executive summary
- Article 7. Other Illegal Weapons
- § 18.2-308.5:1
- Manufacture, importation, sale, possession, transfer, or transportation of auto sears and trigger activators prohibited; penalty
- § 18.2-311.1
- Removing, altering, etc., serial number or other identification on firearm; selling, giving, etc., or possessing firearm without serial number; penalties
- Chapter 8. Crimes Involving Morals and Decency
- Article 1. Gambling
- § 18.2-334.3
- Exemptions to article
- Article 1.1:1. Charitable Gaming
- § 18.2-340.16
- Definitions
- § 18.2-340.19
- Regulations of the Department
- Article 3. Commercial Sex Trafficking, Prostitution, Etc
- § 18.2-356
- Receiving money for procuring person; penalties
- Article 4. Family Offenses; Crimes Against Children, Etc
- § 18.2-371.1
- Abuse and neglect of children; penalties; abandoned infant
- § 18.2-371.2
- Prohibiting sale or distribution, etc. of retail tobacco products and hemp products intended for smoking by persons under 21 years of age; civil penalties
- Article 5. Obscenity and Related Offenses
- § 18.2-374.1
- Production, publication, sale, financing, etc., of child pornography; presumption as to age
- § 18.2-386.2
- Unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another; penalty
- Chapter 10. Crimes Against the Administration of Justice
- Article 5. Contempt of Court
- § 18.2-456
- Cases in which courts and judges may punish summarily for contempt
- Article 6. Interference with Administration of Justice
- § 18.2-465.2
- Contact with jurors after trial prohibited; penalty
