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HOUSE BILL NO. 160 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the House Committee for Courts of Justice on February 4, 2008) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Albo) A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 18.2-104.2, relating to punishment when using an emergency exit during larceny; penalty.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 18.2-104.2 as follows:

§ 18.2-104.2. Additional punishment for using emergency exit during larceny.

Any person, when he commits a larceny or any offense deemed to be or punished as larceny under any provision of the Code, who, during the commission of the offense, uses an emergency exit to leave the structure where the offense took place is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

For purposes of this section, an emergency exit is any doorway or other exit from any place where goods are offered for sale that is designated or labeled as an emergency exit and that is not routinely used as an entrance to the structure or routinely used by the public to enter or leave the structure.