18.2-81 - Burning or destroying personal property, standing grain, etc. - Virginia Statutes

§ 18.2-81. Burning or destroying personal property, standing grain, etc.

If any person maliciously, or with intent to defraud an insurance company orother person, set fire to or burn or destroy by any explosive device orsubstance, or cause to be burned, or destroyed by any explosive device orsubstance, or aid, counsel, or procure the burning or destroying by anyexplosive device or substance, of any personal property, standing grain orother crop, he shall, if the thing burnt or destroyed, be of the value of$200 or more, be guilty of a Class 4 felony; and if the thing burnt ordestroyed be of less value, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

(Code 1950, §§ 18.1-79, 18.1-85; 1960, c. 358; 1972, c. 53; 1975, cc. 14, 15;1981, c. 197.)