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2015 Code of Virginia
Title 53.1 - Prisons and Other Methods of Correction
§ 53.1-26. Confiscation of prohibited articles

VA Code § 53.1-26 (2015) What's This?

Any item of personal property which a prisoner in any state correctional facility is prohibited from possessing by the Code of Virginia or by the rules of the Director shall, when found in the possession of a prisoner, be confiscated and sold or destroyed as the Director may direct. Any funds from the sale of such property shall be invested and used as provided in § 53.1-44.

Code 1950, § 53-23.1; 1968, c. 222; 1982, c. 636.

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