2005 Arizona Revised Statutes - Revised Statutes §13-1604  Aggravated criminal damage; classification

A. A person commits aggravated criminal damage by intentionally or recklessly without the express permission of the owner:

1. Defacing, damaging or in any way changing the appearance of any building, structure, personal property or place used for worship or any religious purpose.

2. Defacing or damaging any building, structure or place used as a school or as an educational facility.

3. Defacing, damaging or tampering with any cemetery, mortuary or personal property of the cemetery or mortuary or other facility used for the purpose of burial or memorializing the dead.

B. Aggravated criminal damage is punishable as follows:

1. Aggravated criminal damage is a class 4 felony if the person intentionally or recklessly does any act described in subsection A which causes damage to the property of another in an amount of ten thousand dollars or more.

2. Aggravated criminal damage is a class 5 felony if the person intentionally or recklessly damages property of another in an amount of one thousand five hundred dollars or more but less than ten thousand dollars.

3. In all other cases aggravated criminal damage is a class 6 felony.

C. In determining the amount of damage to property, damages include the cost of repair or replacement of the property that was damaged.