5.1-16 - Tampering with, etc., airplanes or markings of airports, landing fields or other aeronautical facilities. - Virginia Statutes

§ 5.1-16. Tampering with, etc., airplanes or markings of airports, landingfields or other aeronautical facilities.

It shall be unlawful for any person to tamper with, alter, destroy, remove,carry away, or cause to be carried away, an airplane or other flying deviceor instrumentality or any objects used for the marking of airports, landingfields, drop zones or other aeronautical facilities, or in any way changetheir position or location, except by and under the direction of the properauthorities charged with the maintenance and operation of such facilities.Any person violating any of the provisions of this section or who shallillegally have in his possession any objects or devices used for suchmarkings, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Code 1950, § 5-10.4; 1966, c. 576.)