CODE OF VIRGINIA

ENTERING DWELLING HOUSE, ETC., WITH INTENT TO COMMIT MURDER, RAPE, ROBBERY OR
ARSON; PENALTY (§ 18.2-90)

If any person in the nighttime enters without breaking or in the daytime breaks
and enters or enters and conceals himself in a dwelling house or an adjoining,
occupied outhouse or in the nighttime enters without breaking or at any time
breaks and enters or enters and conceals himself in any building permanently
affixed to realty, or any ship, vessel or river craft or any railroad car, or
any automobile, truck or trailer, if such automobile, truck or trailer is used
as a dwelling or place of human habitation, with intent to commit murder, rape,
robbery or arson in violation of §§ 18.2-77, 18.2-79 or § 18.2-80, he shall
be deemed guilty of statutory burglary, which offense shall be a Class 3 felony.
However, if such person was armed with a deadly weapon at the time of such
entry, he shall be guilty of a Class 2 felony.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-88; 1960, c. 358; 1970, c. 381; 1975, cc. 14, 15;
1985, c. 110; 1992, c. 546; 1997, c. 832; 2004, c. 842.