[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Edinburg 9-12-1978 (Secs. 7-1, 12-1 through 12-7,
12-16, 12-20 through 12-27, 12-30 and 12-33 through 12-36 of the 1978
Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
CODE OF VIRGINIA REFERENCES
Attempts to commit misdemeanors — § 18.2-27.
Crimes against property — § 18.2-77
et seq.
Crime involving fraud — § 18.2-168
et seq.
Impersonating an officer — § 18.2-174.
Crimes against peace and good order — § 18.2-404
et seq.
Obstructing justice — § 18.2-460.
If any person shall, in the presence or hearing of another,
curse or abuse such other person, or use any violent abusive language
to such person concerning himself or any of his relations, or otherwise
use such language, under circumstances reasonably calculated to provoke
a breach of the peace, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
Any person who shall commit a simple assault or assault and
battery shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Every person who attempts to commit an offense which is a misdemeanor
under the provisions of this Code shall be punishable by the same
punishment prescribed for the offense the commission of which was
the object of the attempt. In no event shall the punishment for an
attempt to commit an offense exceed the maximum punishment had the
offense been committed.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
Any person who shall in any way injure, tear down, cut or remove
any door step, sign, gate, tree, shrub or flowers or any other property
of the citizens of the Town, or of the Town itself, without authority
to do so, shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
[Amended 8-12-1998]
A. A person is guilty of disorderly conduct if, with the intent to cause
public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a
risk thereof, he:
(1) In any street, highway or public building, or while in or on a public
conveyance or public place, engages in conduct having a direct tendency
to cause acts of violence by the person or persons at whom, individually,
such conduct is directed; or
(2) Willfully or being intoxicated, whether willfully or not, and whether
such intoxication results from self-administered alcohol or other
drug of whatever nature, disrupts any funeral, memorial service, or
meeting of the governing body of any political subdivision of this
commonwealth or a division or agency thereof, or of any school, literary
society or place of religious worship, if the disruption prevents
or interferes with the orderly conduct of the funeral, memorial service,
or meeting or has a direct tendency to cause acts of violence by the
person or persons at whom, individually, the disruption is directed;
or
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
(3) Willfully or while intoxicated, whether willfully or not, and whether
such intoxication results from self-administered alcohol or other
drug of whatever nature, disrupts the operation of any school or any
activity conducted or sponsored by any school, if the disruption prevents
or interferes with the orderly conduct of the operation or activity
or has a direct tendency to cause acts of violence by the person or
persons at whom, individually, the disruption is directed.
B. However, the conduct prohibited under Subsection
A of this section shall not be deemed to include the utterance or display of any words or to include conduct otherwise made punishable under Title 18.2 of the Code of Virginia.
C. The person in charge of any such building, place, conveyance, meeting,
operation or activity may eject therefrom any person who violates
any provision of this section, with the aid, if necessary, of any
persons who may be called upon for such purpose.
D. A person violating any provision of this section shall be guilty
of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
E. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any elementary
or secondary school student if the disorderly conduct occurred on
the property of any elementary or secondary school, on a school bus
as defined in § 46.2-100, Code of Virginia, or at any activity
conducted or sponsored by any elementary or secondary school.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions,
Art. II)]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
A. It is unlawful for any person to keep any bawdy place, or to reside
in or at or visit for immoral purposes any such bawdy place. Each
day such bawdy place is kept, resided in, or visited shall constitute
a separate offense. In a prosecution under this section, the general
reputation of the bawdy place may be proved. A violation of this section
is a Class 1 misdemeanor.
B. As used in this section, "bawdy place" means any place within or
outside any building or structure that is used or is to be used for
lewdness, assignation, or prostitution.
Any person or persons who in any public place or on any private
property open to the public unreasonably or unnecessarily obstruct
the free passage of other persons to and from or within such place
or property and who shall fail or refuse to cease such obstruction
or move on when requested to do so by the owner or lessee or agent
or employee of such owner or lessee or by a duly authorized law enforcement
officer shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Nothing in this
section shall be construed to prohibit lawful picketing.
If any person, by threats or force, attempts to intimidate or
impede a judge, justice, juror, witness or an officer of a court or
any law enforcement officer in the discharge of his duty or to obstruct
or impede the administration of justice in any court, he shall be
deemed to be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
A. It shall
be unlawful for any person to enter upon the property of another and
secretly or furtively peep, spy or attempt to peep or spy into or
through a window, door or other aperture of any building, structure,
or other enclosure of any nature occupied or intended for occupancy
as a dwelling, whether or not such building, structure or enclosure
is permanently situated or transportable and whether or not such occupancy
is permanent or temporary, or to do the same, without just cause,
upon property owned by him and leased or rented to another under circumstances
that would violate the occupant's reasonable expectation of privacy.
B. It shall
be unlawful for any person to use a peephole or other aperture to
secretly or furtively peep, spy or attempt to peep or spy into a restroom,
dressing room, locker room, hotel room, motel room, tanning bed, tanning
booth, bedroom or other location or enclosure for the purpose of viewing
any nonconsenting person who is totally nude, clad in undergarments,
or in a state of undress exposing the genitals, pubic area, buttocks
or female breast and the circumstances are such that the person would
otherwise have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
C. The provisions
of this section shall not apply to a lawful criminal investigation
or a correctional official or local or regional jail official conducting
surveillance for security purposes or during an investigation of alleged
misconduct involving a person committed to the Department of Corrections
or to a local or regional jail.
D. As used
in this section, "peephole" means any hole, crack or other similar
opening through which a person can see.
E. A violation
of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
Any person who 1) commits larceny from the person of another
of money or other thing of value of less than $5; or 2) commits simple
larceny not from the person of another of goods and chattels of the
value of less than $1,000, except as provided in Clause (iii) of § 18.2-95,
Code of Virginia, shall be deemed guilty of petit larceny, which shall
be punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor.
It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to give a false
report as to the commission of any crime to any law enforcement official
with intent to mislead. Violation of the provisions of this section
shall be punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
Any person who shall falsely assume or exercise the functions,
powers, duties and privileges incident to the office of Sheriff, police
officer, marshal or other peace officer, or who shall falsely assume
or pretend to be any such officer, shall be deemed guilty of a Class
1 misdemeanor.
If any person, on being required by any sheriff or other officer,
refuses or neglects to assist any Sheriff or other officer in the
execution of his office in a criminal case, in the preservation of
the peace, in the apprehending or securing of any person for a breach
of the peace or in any case of escape or rescue, he shall be guilty
of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
No person shall resist, abuse, obstruct or hinder any law enforcement
officer or any officer or employee of the Town in the discharge of
his duty, or any contractor or other person in the execution of any
work for the Town. Any person violating the provisions of this section
shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
A. If any person profanely curse or swear or be drunk in public he shall
be deemed guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.
B. If any person shall be convicted for being drunk in public three
times within one year in the Town, upon the third or any subsequent
conviction for such offense within the period of one year such person
shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
If any person shall without authority of law go upon or remain
upon the lands, buildings or premises of another, or any part, portion
or area thereof, after having been forbidden to do so, either orally
or in writing, by the owner, lessee, custodian or other person lawfully
in charge thereof, or after having been forbidden to do so by a sign
or signs posted on such lands, buildings, premises or part, portion
or area thereof at a place or places where it or they may be reasonably
seen, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
If any person shall solicit, urge, encourage, exhort, instigate
or procure another or others to go upon or remain upon the lands,
buildings or premises of another, or any part, portion or area thereof,
knowing such other person or persons to have been forbidden, either
orally or in writing, to do so by the owner, lessee, custodian or
other person lawfully in charge thereof, or knowing such other person
or persons to have been forbidden to do so by a sign or signs posted
on such lands, buildings, premises or part, portion or area thereof
at a place or places where it or they may reasonably be seen; or if
any person shall, on such lands, buildings, premises or part, portion
or area thereof prevent or seek to prevent the owner, lessee, custodian,
person in charge or any of his employees from rendering service to
any person or persons not so forbidden, he shall be guilty of a Class
1 misdemeanor.
It shall be unlawful for any person to enter the land, dwelling,
outhouse or any other building of another for the purpose of damaging
such property or any of the contents thereof or in any manner to interfere
with the rights of the owner, user or the occupant thereof to use
such property free from interference. Any person violating the provisions
of this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
If any person shall use obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious
or indecent language, or make any suggestion or proposal of an obscene
nature, or threaten any illegal or immoral act with the intent to
coerce, intimidate or harass any person over any telephone, he shall
be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Any person who shall wantonly or without knowledge of the existence
of a fire turns in or gives any false alarm to the Fire Department
or who in any way tampers with the fire alarm system shall be guilty
of a Class 1 misdemeanor.