18.2-58.1 - Carjacking; penalty. - Virginia Statutes

§ 18.2-58.1. Carjacking; penalty.

A. Any person who commits carjacking, as herein defined, shall be guilty of afelony punishable by imprisonment for life or a term not less than fifteenyears.

B. As used in this section, "carjacking" means the intentional seizure orseizure of control of a motor vehicle of another with intent to permanentlyor temporarily deprive another in possession or control of the vehicle ofthat possession or control by means of partial strangulation, or suffocation,or by striking or beating, or by other violence to the person, or by assaultor otherwise putting a person in fear of serious bodily harm, or by thethreat or presenting of firearms, or other deadly weapon or instrumentalitywhatsoever. "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 anyother provision of the criminal law of the Commonwealth which may apply toany course of conduct which violates this section.

(1993, c. 500.)