title 18 (ch. 33) INDIVIDUAL CHAPTERS

Question 1

Arson and related offenses

Answer 1

S. 3301

Dangerous burning.–A person commits a summary offense if he intentionally or recklessly starts a fire to endanger any person or property of another whether or not any damage to person or property actually occurs.

Question 2

Criminal mischief

Answer 2

S. 3304 (f3)

Damages tangible property of another intentionally , recklessly, or by negligence in the employment of fire, explosives, or other dangerous means listed in section 3302(a)
(1) intentionally or recklessly tampers with tangible propert of another so as to endanger person or property

(2) intentionally or recklessly causes another to suffer pecuniary loss by deception or threat

(3) intentionally defaces or otherwise damages tangible public property with graffiti by use of arisol spray can or broad tipped marker

Question 3

Causing or risking catastrophe

Answer 3

S. 3302

Causing catastrophe.–A person who causes a catastrophe by explosion, fire, flood, avalanche, collapse of building, release of poison gas, radioactive material or other harmful or destructive force or substance, or by any other means of causing potentially widespread injury or damage

Question 4

Institutional vandalism

Answer 4

S. 3307

Offenses defined.–A person commits the offense of institutional vandalism if he knowingly desecrates, as defined in section 5509 (relating to desecration or sale of venerated objects), vandalizes, defaces or otherwise damages:

(1) any church, synagogue or other facility or place used for religious worship or other religious purposes;

(2) any cemetery, mortuary or other facility used for the purpose of burial or memorializing the dead;

(3) any school, educational facility, community center, municipal building, courthouse facility, State or local government building or vehicle or juvenile detention center;

(4) the grounds adjacent to and owned or occupied by any facility set forth in paragraph (1), (2) or (3); or

(5) any personal property located in any facility set forth in this subsection.