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It has been modified 7 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1960, chapter 132; in 1972, chapter 825; in 1977, chapter 617; in 1983, chapter 330; in 1987, chapter 193; in 1994, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?941+ful+CHAP0508\">508<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?941+ful+CHAP0552\">552<\/a>; in 1996, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?961+ful+CHAP0698\">698<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1507791,"object_type":"law","relational_id":377347,"identifier":"8.01-43","token":"8.01\/3\/3\/8.01-43","url":"\/8.01-43\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/8.01-43\/","token":"8.01\/3\/3\/8.01-43","dublin_core":{"Title":"Action against parent for damage to public property by minor","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 8.01-43","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The Commonwealth, acting through the officers having charge of the public property involved, or the governing body of a county, city, town, or other political subdivision, or a school board may institute an <span class=\"dictionary\">action<\/span> and recover from the parents or either of them of any <span class=\"dictionary\">minor<\/span> living with such parents or either of them for <span class=\"dictionary\">damages<\/span> suffered by reason of the willful or <span class=\"dictionary\">malicious<\/span> destruction of, or damage to, public property by such <span class=\"dictionary\">minor<\/span>. 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