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HOUSE BILL NO. 622 Offered January 13, 2016 Prefiled January 11, 2016 A BILL to amend and reenact § 18.2-147 of the Code of Virginia, relating to entering vehicle, etc.; interference with rights of owner. ---------- Patron-- Bell, Robert B. ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 18.2-147 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 18.2-147. Entering or setting in motion vehicle, aircraft, boat, locomotive, or rolling stock of railroad; exceptions.

Any person who shall, without the consent of the owner or person in charge of a vehicle, aircraft, boat, vessel, locomotive, or other rolling stock of a railroad, climb climbs into or upon such vehicle, aircraft, boat, vessel, locomotive, or other rolling stock of a railroad, with intent to commit any crime, malicious mischief, or injury thereto or with the intent to interfere with the rights of the owner or person in charge of the vehicle, aircraft, boat, vessel, locomotive, or other rolling stock of a railroad to use such vehicle, aircraft, boat, vessel, locomotive, or other rolling stock of a railroad free from interference, or who, while a vehicle, aircraft, boat, vessel, locomotive, or other rolling stock of a railroad is at rest and unattended, shall attempt attempts to manipulate any of the levers and starting crank or other device, brakes, or mechanism thereof or to set into motion such vehicle, aircraft, boat, vessel, locomotive, or other rolling stock of a railroad, with the intent to commit any crime, malicious mischief, or injury thereto, shall be is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor, except that the foregoing provision shall not apply when any such act is done in an emergency or in furtherance of public safety or by or under the direction of an officer in the regulation of traffic or performance of any other official duty.