Virginia criminal code — article
Article 3: Classification of Criminal Offenses and Punishment Therefor
Article 3 of Chapter 1: In General, Code of Virginia. Statutory text on each section page is current through the legislative session it names.
Sections of Article 3
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-8 — Felonies, misdemeanors and traffic infractions defined
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-9 — Classification of criminal offenses
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-10 — Punishment for conviction of felony; penalty
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-11 — Punishment for conviction of misdemeanor
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-12 — Same; where no punishment or maximum punishment prescribed
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-12.1 — Mandatory minimum punishment; definition
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-13 — Same; by reference
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-14 — How unclassified offenses punished
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-15 — Place of punishment
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-16 — How common-law offenses punished
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-16.1 — Common-law crime of suicide abolished
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-17 — Repealed
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