If any person unlawfully destroys, defaces, damages, or removes without the intent to steal any property, real or personal, not his or her own, or breaks down, destroys, defaces, damages, or removes without the intent to steal, any monument erected for the purpose of marking the site of any engagement fought during the war between the states, or for the purpose of designating the boundaries of any city, town, tract of land, or any tree marked for that purpose, he or she shall be punished pursuant to § 131.99 if the value of or damage to the property or monument is less than $1,000. The amount of loss caused by the destruction, defacing, damage, or removal of such property or monument may be established by proof of the fair market cost of repair or fair market replacement value.
(1998 Code, § 38-36) Penalty, see § 131.99
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see VA Code § 18.2-137