33.1-345 - Cutting or injuring trees near highways, injuring bridges, markers, etc.; obstructing roads, etc. - Virginia Statutes

§ 33.1-345. Cutting or injuring trees near highways, injuring bridges,markers, etc.; obstructing roads, etc.

Any person shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor who shall:

(1) Cut or injure a tree within fifty feet of a road so as to render itliable to fall and leave it standing;

(2) Knowingly and willfully, without lawful authority, break down, destroy orinjure any bridge or log placed across a stream for the accommodation ofpedestrians;

(3) Obstruct any road or any ditch made for the purpose of draining any suchroad;

(4), (5) [Repealed.]

(6) Willfully or maliciously displace, remove, destroy or injure any highwaysign or historical marker or any inscription thereon lawfully within ahighway;

(7) Put or cast into any public road any glass, bottles, glassware, crockery,porcelain or pieces thereof, or any pieces of iron or hard or sharp metal, orany nails, tacks or sharp-pointed instruments of any kind, likely in theirnature to cut or puncture any tire of any vehicle or injure any animaltraveling thereon. This subdivision shall not apply to the use of any tiredeflation device by a law-enforcement officer while in the discharge of hisofficial duties, provided the device was approved for use by the Division ofPurchase and Supply.

(8) [Repealed.]

(Code 1950, § 33-279; 1956, c. 676; 1970, c. 322; 1972, c. 65; 1980, c. 141;1981, c. 19; 1988, c. 79; 1989, c. 727; 1997, c. 136.)