716.3  Criminal mischief in the first degree.

Criminal mischief is criminal mischief in the first degree if the cost of replacing, repairing, or restoring the property so damaged, defaced, altered, or destroyed is more than ten thousand dollars, or if such acts are intended to or do in fact cause a substantial interruption or impairment of service rendered to the public by a gas, electric, steam or waterworks corporation, telephone or telegraph corporation, common carrier, or a public utility operated by a municipality. Criminal mischief in the first degree is a class "C" felony.

Section History: Early form

  [C51, § 2680; R60, § 4320; C73, § 3979; C97, § 4807; S13, § 4807; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 13120; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, § 716.7; C79, 81, § 716.3]

Section History: Recent form

  92 Acts, ch 1060, § 8


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