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1994 SESSION


CHAPTER 639
An Act to amend and reenact § 18.2-26 of the Code of Virginia, relating to attempted second degree murder.
[H 479]
Approved April 10, 1994

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 18.2-26 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 18.2-26. Attempts to commit noncapital felonies; how punished.

Every person who attempts to commit an offense which is a noncapital felony shall be punished as follows:

(1) If the felony attempted is punishable by a maximum punishment of life imprisonment or a term of years in excess of twenty years, an attempt thereat shall be punishable as a Class 4 felony.

(2) If the felony attempted is punishable by a maximum punishment of twenty years' imprisonment, an attempt thereat shall be punishable as a Class 5 felony.

(3) If the felony attempted is punishable by a maximum punishment of less than twenty years' imprisonment, an attempt thereat shall be punishable as a Class 6 felony.