§ 18.2-488. Mutilating, defacing, etc.
No person shall publicly burn with contempt, mutilate, deface, defile, trample upon, or wear with intent to defile any such flag, standard, color, ensign or shield. Code 1950, § 18.1-425; 1960, c. 358; 1968, c. 349; 1975, cc. 14, 15, 493.
§ 18.2-486. Definition of flag, standard, etc.
The words flag, standard, color, ensign or shield, as used in this article, shall include any flag, standard, color, ensign or shield, or copy, picture or representation thereof, made of any substance or represented or produced thereon, and of any size, evidently purporting to be such flag, standard, color, ensign or shield of the United […]
§ 18.2-482. Misprision of treason
If any person knowing of such treason shall not, as soon as may be, give information thereof to the Governor, or some conservator of the peace, he shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony. Code 1950, § 18.1-419; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.
§ 18.2-483. Attempting, or instigating others, to establish usurped government
If any person attempt to establish any such usurped government and commit any overt act therefor or by writing or speaking endeavor to instigate others to establish such government, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Code 1950, § 18.1-420; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.
§ 18.2-484. Advocacy of change in government by force, violence or other unlawful means
It shall be unlawful for any person, group, or organization to advocate any change, by force, violence, or other unlawful means in the government of the Commonwealth of Virginia or any of its subdivisions or in the government of the United States of America. It shall be unlawful for any person to join, assist or […]
§ 18.2-485. Conspiring to incite one race to insurrection against another race
If any person conspire with another to incite the population of one race to acts of violence and war against the population of another race, he shall, whether such acts of violence and war be made or not, be guilty of a Class 4 felony. Code 1950, § 18.1-422; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, […]
§ 18.2-476. Officers, etc., willfully and deliberately permitting person convicted of, charged with, or adjudicated delinquent of a nonfelonious offense to escape or willfully refusing to receive person; penalty
If any sheriff, jailer, or other officer, or any guard or other person summoned or employed by such sheriff, jailer, or other officer, willfully and deliberately permits a prisoner or person committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice convicted of, charged with, or adjudicated delinquent of an offense not a felony, to escape from his […]
§ 18.2-477. Prisoner escaping from jail; how punished
If any person confined in jail or in custody after conviction of a criminal offense shall escape by force or violence, other than by setting fire thereto, he shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony. The term of confinement under this section shall commence from the expiration of the former sentence. Code 1950, § […]
§ 18.2-477.1. Escapes from juvenile facility; penalty
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to escape or remain away without proper authority from a group home or other residential care facility for children in need of services, delinquent or alleged delinquent youths in which he had been placed by the juvenile and domestic relations court or as a result of his […]
§ 18.2-477.2. Punishment for certain offenses committed within a secure juvenile facility or detention home
It shall be unlawful for a person committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice in any juvenile correctional center or detained in a secure juvenile facility or detention home to commit any of the offenses enumerated in § 53.1-203. A violation of this section shall be punishable as a Class 6 felony, except that a […]