55-334.1 - Larceny of timber; penalty. - Virginia Statutes

§ 55-334.1. Larceny of timber; penalty.

A. Any person who knowingly and willfully takes, steals, and removes from thelands of another any timber growing, standing or lying on the lands shall beguilty of larceny. Any person so convicted shall be ordered to payrestitution calculated pursuant to § 55-332.

B. In a criminal prosecution pursuant to subsection A, it shall be primafacie evidence of the intent to steal the timber if the timber was harvestedor removed from property marked with readily visible paint marks not morethan 100 feet apart on trees or posts along the property line, where thepaint marks were vertical lines at least two inches in width and at leasteight inches in length and the center of the mark was no less than three feetor more than six feet from the ground or normal water surface.

(2004, cc. 604, 615.)