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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?041+ful+CHAP0203\">203<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1507819,"object_type":"law","relational_id":377364,"identifier":"8.01-44.6","token":"8.01\/3\/3\/8.01-44.6","url":"\/8.01-44.6\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/8.01-44.6\/","token":"8.01\/3\/3\/8.01-44.6","dublin_core":{"Title":"Action for injury to cemetery property","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 8.01-44.6","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The owner or operator of a cemetery company may bring an <span class=\"dictionary\">action<\/span> to recover <span class=\"dictionary\">damages<\/span> sustained, together with costs and reasonable attorneys&#8217; fees, against any <span class=\"dictionary\">person<\/span> who willfully or maliciously destroys, mutilates, defaces, injures, or removes any tomb, monument, gravestone, or other structure placed within any cemetery, graveyard, or place of burial, or within any lot belonging to any memorial or monumental association, or any fence, railing, or other work for the protection or ornament of any tomb, monument, gravestone, or other structure aforesaid, or of any cemetery lot within any cemetery. 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The cemetery\nowner or operator may recover, as part of damages sustained, the cost of repair\nor replacement of damaged property, including any labor costs, regardless of\nwhether the property damaged is owned by the cemetery or by another person.\n\nHISTORY: 2004, c. 203.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}