Code of Alabama - Title 13A: Criminal Code - Chapter 7 - Offenses Involving Damage to and Intrusion Upon Property

• Article 1 Burglary and Criminal Trespass.
• Section 13A-7-1 Definitions
  The following definitions are applicable to this article: (1) BUILDING. Any structure which may be entered and utilized by persons for business, public use, lodging...
• Section 13A-7-2 Criminal trespass in the first degree
  (a) A person is guilty of criminal trespass in the first degree if he knowingly enters or remains unlawfully in a dwelling. (b) Criminal trespass...
• Section 13A-7-3 Criminal trespass in the second degree
  (a) A person is guilty of criminal trespass in the second degree if he knowingly enters or remains unlawfully in a building or upon real...
• Section 13A-7-4 Criminal trespass in the third degree
  (a) A person is guilty of criminal trespass in the third degree when he knowingly enters or remains unlawfully in or upon premises. (b) Criminal...
• Section 13A-7-4.1 Criminal trespass by motor vehicle
  (a) A person commits the offense of criminal trespass by motor vehicle when the person, after having been requested not to do so by a...
• Section 13A-7-4.2 Trespass on a school bus in the first degree
  (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Charles "Chuck" Poland, Jr., Act. (b) A person commits the crime of trespass...
• Section 13A-7-4.3 Unauthorized entry of a critical infrastructure
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the following words have the following meanings: (1) CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE. The term includes, but is not limited to,...
• Section 13A-7-5 Burglary in the first degree
  (a) A person commits the crime of burglary in the first degree if he or she knowingly and unlawfully enters or remains unlawfully in a...
• Section 13A-7-6 Burglary in the second degree
  (a) A person commits the crime of burglary in the second degree if he or she knowingly enters or remains unlawfully in a building with...
• Section 13A-7-7 Burglary in the third degree
  (a) A person commits the crime of burglary in the third degree if any of the following occur: (1) He or she knowingly enters or...
• Section 13A-7-8 Possession of burglar's tools
  (a) A person commits the crime of possession of burglar's tools if he: (1) Possesses any explosive, tool, instrument or other article adapted, designed or...
• Article 2 Criminal Damage to Property.
• Section 13A-7-20 Definitions
  The definitions contained in Sections 13A-7-40 and 13A-8-1 are applicable in this article unless the context otherwise requires.
• Section 13A-7-21 Criminal mischief in the first degree
  (a) A person commits the crime of criminal mischief in the first degree if, with intent to damage property, and having no right to do...
• Section 13A-7-22 Criminal mischief in the second degree
  (a) A person commits the crime of criminal mischief in the second degree if, with intent to damage property, and having no right to do...
• Section 13A-7-23 Criminal mischief in the third degree
  (a) A person commits the crime of criminal mischief in the third degree if, with intent to damage property, and having no right to do...
• Section 13A-7-23.1 Desecration, defacement, etc., of memorial of dead; invasion or mutilation of corpse
  (a) Any person who willfully or maliciously injures, defaces, removes, or destroys any tomb, monument, gravestone, burial mound, earthen or shell monument containing human skeletal...
• Section 13A-7-24 Criminal tampering - Definitions
  The following definitions apply to Sections 13A-7-25 and 13A-7-26: (1) TAMPER. To improperly interfere, meddle with or make an unwarranted alteration in the condition of...
• Section 13A-7-25 Criminal tampering in the first degree
  (a) A person commits the crime of criminal tampering in the first degree if the person does any of the following: (1) Having no right...
• Section 13A-7-26 Criminal tampering in the second degree
  (a) A person commits the crime of criminal tampering in the second degree if, having no right to do so or any reasonable ground to...
• Section 13A-7-27 Criminal use of noxious substance
  (a) A person commits the crime of criminal use of a noxious substance if he knowingly deposits on the land or in the building or...
• Section 13A-7-28 Criminal possession of noxious substances
  (a) A person commits the crime of criminal possession of noxious substances if he possesses, manufactures or transports any stink bomb or device, irritant, offensive-smelling...
• Section 13A-7-29 Criminal littering
  (a) A person commits the crime of criminal littering if he or she engages in any of the following acts: (1) Knowingly deposits in any...
• Article 3 Arson and Explosives.
• Section 13A-7-40 Definitions
  The following definitions are applicable to this article: (1) BUILDING. As used in this article, such term means any structure which may be entered and...
• Section 13A-7-41 Arson in the first degree
  (a) A person commits the crime of arson in the first degree if he intentionally damages a building by starting or maintaining a fire or...
• Section 13A-7-42 Arson in the second degree
  (a) A person commits the crime of arson in the second degree if he intentionally damages a building by starting or maintaining a fire or...
• Section 13A-7-43 Arson in the third degree
  (a) A person commits the crime of arson in the third degree if he recklessly damages a building by a fire or an explosion. (b)...
• Section 13A-7-44 Criminal possession of explosives
  Repealed by Act 2009-718, p. 2115, §23, effective August 1, 2009.
• Article 4 Miscellaneous Offenses.
• Section 13A-7-60 Unlawfully taking possession of or going back into possession of real estate after dispossession under legal process
  Any person having no title or bona fide claim of title thereto or right of possession, who enters upon any land, and on demand of...
• Section 13A-7-61 Allowing stock to run at large under common fence
  Any one of several persons occupying or cultivating lands under a common fence who turns stock of any kind into such inclosure, or knowingly suffers...
• Article 5 Looting.
• Section 13A-7-80 Definitions; penalties
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the following words have the following meaning: (1) BUILDING. Any structure that may be entered and utilized by...

Last modified: May 3, 2021