18.2-102 - Unauthorized use of animal, aircraft, vehicle or boat; consent; accessories or accomplices.
§ 18.2-102. Unauthorized use of animal, aircraft, vehicle or boat; consent;accessories or accomplices.
Any person who shall take, drive or use any animal, aircraft, vehicle, boator vessel, not his own, without the consent of the owner thereof and in theabsence of the owner, and with intent temporarily to deprive the ownerthereof of his possession thereof, without intent to steal the same, shall beguilty of a Class 6 felony; provided, however, that if the value of suchanimal, aircraft, vehicle, boat or vessel shall be less than $200, suchperson shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The consent of the owner ofan animal, aircraft, vehicle, boat or vessel to its taking, driving or usingshall not in any case be presumed or implied because of such owner's consenton a previous occasion to the taking, driving or using of such animal,aircraft, vehicle, boat or vessel by the same or a different person. Anyperson who assists in, or is a party or accessory to, or an accomplice in,any such unauthorized taking, driving or using shall be subject to the samepunishment as if he were the principal offender.
(Code 1950, § 18.1-164; 1960, c. 358; 1970, c. 8; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1981, c.197.)