Any person who enters, forces or attempts to force an entrance into, tampers with, or inserts any part of an instrument into any parking meter, vending machine, pay telephone, money changing machine, or any other device designed to receive money, with intent to steal therefrom, shall for the first conviction thereof be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor, and for any subsequent conviction of a violation thereof shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony.
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-152
Stealing from or tampering with parking meter, vending machine, pay telephone, etc
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Giganti v. Gen-X Strategies, Inc. (2004)
Most recently applied in Hanan Khashoggi v. NSO Group Technologies Limited (May 2025)
Code 1950, § 18.1-125.1; 1968, c. 518; 1975, cc. 14, 15.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.