Whoever maliciously mutilates, tears, defaces, obliterates or destroys any written instrument, the property of another, the false making of which would be forgery, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
Whoever maliciously digs up, removes, displaces, breaks or otherwise injures, obstructs or destroys— (1) any public highway or bridge; (2) any private way laid out by authority of law; or (3) any bridge upon such highway or private way— shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
(a) As used in this section, “utility” includes any person, firm, corporation, or association, whether private, public, quasi-public, or cooperative which is engaged in the sale, generation, provision, or delivery of gas, electricity, heat, water, oil, sewer service, telephone service, telegraph service, radio service, or communication service, but does not include a cable television company […]
Whoever— (1) without authority of the owner or managing agent and with intent to defraud, takes water from any canal, well, cistern, ditch, flume or reservoir used for the purpose of holding or conveying water for manufacturing, agriculture, irrigation, generation of power or domestic uses; (2) without like authority, raises, lowers or otherwise disturbs any […]
Whoever— (1) willfully and maliciously defaces, breaks, destroys or removes any— (A) tomb, monument or gravestone erected to any deceased person; (B) memento or memorial; or (C) ornamental plant, tree or shrub appertaining to the place of burial of a human being; or (2) marks, defaces, injures, destroys or removes any fence, post, rail or […]
(a) Whoever willfully and without lawful authority defaces, damages, destroys or otherwise injures, in any way, any property, real or personal, of the Government of the Virgin Islands on the premises or grounds of a public school shall be fined not less than $5,000 nor more than $10,000, plus the actual costs of repairing the […]
The parents, guardians or other person having legal custody of a minor less than 18 years of age who shall injure any public or private school property shall be liable to (i) in the case of public school property, the Government of the Virgin Islands, or (ii) in the case of private school property, the […]
(a) Whoever willfully destroys or damages in any manner a public fire hydrant shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, shall be fined not less than $100 and not more than $500, or imprisoned not less than one month and not more than nine months or both, and shall pay to the Government of the Virgin […]
Whoever maliciously injures or destroys any real or personal property not his own, in cases not otherwise specified in this Code, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
(a) Whoever willfully defaces, breaks, destroys, removes or otherwise damages: (1) any church, synagogue or other building, structure or place used primarily for religious worship or for other religious purposes; (2) any cemetery, mortuary or other facility used for the purpose of burial or memorializing the dead not otherwise provided for under section 1265 of […]
