18.2-80 - Burning or destroying any other building or structure.
§ 18.2-80. Burning or destroying any other building or structure.
If any person maliciously, or with intent to defraud an insurance company orother person, burn, or by the use of any explosive device or substance,maliciously destroy, in whole or in part, or cause to be burned or destroyed,or aid, counsel or procure the burning or destruction of any building,bridge, lock, dam or other structure, whether the property of himself or ofanother, at a time when any person is therein or thereon, the burning ordestruction whereof is not punishable under any other section of thischapter, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 felony. If he commits such offenseat a time when no person is in such building, or other structure, and suchbuilding, or other structure, with the property therein, be of the value of$200, or more, he shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony, and if it and theproperty therein be of less value, he shall be guilty of a Class 1misdemeanor.
(Code 1950, §§ 18.1-80, 18.1-81, 18.1-85; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15;1981, c. 197.)