Virginia legal term
Disability in Virginia Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Virginia legislative session
In Virginia criminal law, “Disability” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Virginia criminal code.
What does “Disability” mean in Virginia criminal law?
"Disability" means a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of a person's major life activities. (Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-57)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Computer trespass
- Entering property of another for purpose of damaging it, etc
- Falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials
- False statement for the purpose of defrauding industrial sick benefit company
- Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearm by persons adjudicated legally incompetent or mentally incapacitated
- Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearms by persons acquitted by reason of insanity
Related terms in the same statutes
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