Title 18, CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

18-7001. Malicious injury to property. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, every person who maliciously injures or destroys any real or personal property not his own, or any jointly owned property without permission of the joint owner, or any prope…

18-7002. Construction of sections enumerating acts of malicious mischief. The specification of the acts enumerated in the following sections of this chapter is not intended to restrict or qualify the interpretation of the preceding section.

18-7004. Firing timber or prairie lands. Any person who shall wilfully or carelessly set on fire, or cause to be set on fire, any timber or prairie lands in this state, thereby destroying the timber, grass or grain on any such lands, or any person who shall build a camp fire in a…

18-7005. Damage to forage on public lands from throwing away or leaving lighted substances. Any person who shall throw any lighted cigarette, cigar, match, ashes, or other flaming or glowing substance or any substance or thing which may cause a fire, from any vehicle, or who shal…

18-7006. Trespass of privacy. It shall be unlawful for any person, upon the private property of another, to intentionally look, peer or peek in the door, window, or other transparent opening of any inhabited building or other structure located thereon, without visible or lawful p…

18-7008. CRIMINAL Trespass — definitions and Acts constituting. (1) Definitions. As used in this section: (a) "Crops" means field crops including, but not limited to, grains, feed crops, legumes, fruits and vegetables. (b) "Cultivated land" means: (i) Land whose soil is loosened …

18-7009. Destruction of timber on state lands. Every person who wilfully and without authority enters upon the public lands of the state and cuts down, destroys or injures any kind of wood or timber, standing or growing upon such lands, or who wilfully and without authority carri…

18-7010. Cutting state timber for shipment. Every person who wilfully and without authority enters upon the public lands of the state and cuts down, destroys or injures any kind of wood or timber growing upon such lands, for the purpose of shipping, freighting, floating or otherw…

18-7012. Opening gates and destroying fences. It shall be a misdemeanor for any person to open and leave open any gate not belonging to such person or rightfully under his control, or to cut, break, tear down, or otherwise injure, any fence or wall or any obstruction used for a f…

18-7013. Reservoirs and tanks — Pollution when fenced or posted a misdemeanor. Whenever any individual, individuals or corporation, municipal, public or private, owning, operating or maintaining any reservoir, pond, tank or any structure or place wherein or whereon water is store…

18-7014. Injuries to crops. Every person who maliciously injures or destroys any standing crops, grain, cultivated fruits or vegetables, the property of another, in any case for which a punishment is not otherwise prescribed by this code, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

18-7015. Trespass on inclosure for fur-bearing animals. When the owner of any inclosure wherein foxes or other fur-bearing animals are held in captivity, shall erect a fence or other barrier around the same and within the boundaries of the premises under the exclusive dominion an…

18-7016. Obliterating and defacing boundary monuments. Every person who either: 1. Maliciously removes any monument erected for the purpose of designating any point in the boundary of any lot or tract of land; or 2. Maliciously defaces or alters the marks upon any such monument; …

18-7017. Defacing natural scenic objects. It shall be unlawful for any person to paint, sketch, or place in any manner or form or by any means, upon any rock or rocks or similar natural object or objects, any place within the state of Idaho, any sign, advertisement or picture or …

18-7018. Injuring jails. Every person who wilfully and intentionally breaks down, pulls down or otherwise destroys or injures any public jail or other place of confinement, is punishable by fine not exceeding $10,000, and by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five yea…

18-7019. Injuring dams, canals, and other structures — Penalty. Every person who wilfully and maliciously cuts, breaks, injures or destroys any bridge, dam, canal, flume, aqueduct, levee, embankment, reservoir or other structure erected to create hydraulic power, or to drain or r…

18-7020. Destroying lumber, poles, rafts, and vessels. Every person who willfully and maliciously burns, injures, marks, brands or defaces or destroys any pile, piling, telegraph pole, telephone pole or electric transmission line pole, fence post, pile or raft of wood, plank, boa…

18-7021. Injuring monuments, ornaments, and public improvements. Every person, not the owner thereof, who wilfully mars, disfigures, breaks or otherwise injures, or molests, removes or destroys, any work of art, monument, landmark, historic structure, shade tree, shrub, ornamenta…

18-7022. Injuring gas or water pipes. Every person who wilfully breaks, digs up, obstructs or injures any pipe or main for conducting gas or water, or any works erected for supplying buildings with gas or water or any appurtenances or appendages therewith connected, is guilty of …

18-7023. Destroying mining and water right notices. Every person who intentionally defaces, obliterates, tears down or destroys any notice posted on any lode or placer mining claim, or ditch, or water right, or location, or who removes, takes down or destroys any post or monument…

18-7024. Underground workings of mines — Setting fire to. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to set fire, wilfully or maliciously, in or within any of the underground tunnels, shafts, or any of the underground workings of any mine in the state of Idaho that shall resu…

18-7025. Punishment for violation of preceding section. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by not less than five (5) nor more than twenty (20) years imprisonment in the state …

18-7026. Sabotage. Any person who wilfully, maliciously or mischievously drives or causes to be driven or imbedded any nail, spike or piece of iron, steel or other metallic substance, or any rock or stone, into any log or timber intended to be manufactured into boards, lath, shin…

18-7027. Desecration of grave, cemetery, headstone or place of burial prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person, not acting in full compliance with all the terms of the law to desecrate or molest in any way any portion of any grave, cemetery, headstone, grave marker, mausol…

18-7028. Unlawful removal of human remains — Malice — Intent to sell. Every person who removes any part of any human remains from any place where it has been interred, or from any place where it is deposited while awaiting interment, with intent to sell it or to dissect it, witho…

18-7029. Placing posters or promotional material on public or private property without permission. It shall be unlawful for any person to erect, install, attach or paint, or cause to be erected, installed, attached or painted, election posters or signs upon public or private prop…

18-7031. Placing debris on public or private property. It shall constitute an infraction for any person, natural or artificial, to deposit upon any public or private property within this state any debris, paper, litter, glass bottles, glass, nails, tacks, hooks, hoops, cans, barb…

18-7032. Tampering with parking meters, coin telephones or vending machines — Possession of keys. Any person who without lawful authority, wilfully and wrongfully, opens, removes or damages any parking meter, coin telephone or other vending machine dispensing goods or services, o…

18-7033. Use of unauthorized vehicles on airports. It shall be a misdemeanor offense for any unauthorized vehicle to drive upon, cross or traverse any public or public use airport without the consent of the owner or his designated representative. The owner, operator or lessee or …

18-7034. Unlawful entry. (1) Every person, except under landlord-tenant relationship, who enters any dwelling house, apartment, tenement, shop, warehouse, store, mill, barn, stable, outhouse or other building, tent, vessel, closed vehicle, closed trailer, airplane, railroad car o…

18-7035. Damaging caves or caverns unlawful — Penalty. It shall be unlawful for any person, without prior permission of the federal, state or private landowner, to willfully or knowingly break, break off, crack, carve upon, write or otherwise mark upon, or in any manner destroy, …

18-7036. Injury by graffiti. No person shall purposely or knowingly vandalize, deface or otherwise damage the property of another by painting, writing, drawing, or otherwise inscribing thereon in any fashion that which is commonly known as graffiti. Graffiti includes any form of …

18-7037. Unauthorized release of certain animals, birds or aquatic species — Penalties. (1) Any person who without expressed permission from the owner or agent releases an animal, a bird, or an aquatic species which has been lawfully confined for agriculture, science, research, c…

18-7038. Destroying livestock. (1) Any person who shall, without the permission of the owner: (a) Wilfully and intentionally destroy; or (b) Destroy and remove the body or any body parts of any livestock with a value as set forth in subsection (1)(b) of section 18-2407, Idaho Cod…

18-7039. Killing and otherwise mistreating police dogs, police horses, search and rescue dogs and accelerant detection dogs. (1) Definitions: (a) "Police dog" shall include: (i) "Bomb detection dog" means a dog trained to locate bombs or explosives by scent; (ii) "Electronic stor…

18-7040. Interference with agricultural research. (1) A person commits the crime of interference with agricultural research if the person knowingly: (a) Damages any property at an agricultural research facility with the intent to damage or hinder agricultural research or experime…

18-7041. Damage to aquaculture operations. (1) It is unlawful for any person to knowingly transfer, damage, vandalize, poison, or knowingly attempt to transfer, damage, vandalize or poison the product or facilities of a posted commercial aquaculture operation in Idaho, or to know…

18-7042. interference with agricultural production. (1) A person commits the crime of interference with agricultural production if the person knowingly: (a) Is not employed by an agricultural production facility and enters an agricultural production facility by force, threat, mis…

18-7043. INTENTIONAL BREACH OF BIOSECURITY. (1) It is unlawful for a person to knowingly commit any of the following acts in the state of Idaho with the intent to damage, poison or infect the crops, livestock, products or facilities of an agricultural facility or agricultural ope…

18-7044. immunity — aid to person in vehicle. (1) A person shall not be prosecuted under this title for entry, including forced entry and any resulting property damage, into a motor vehicle for the purpose of removing another person from the vehicle, provided that the person ente…