2006 Code of Virginia § 9.1-181 - Eligibility to participate

9.1-181. Eligibility to participate.

A. Any city, county, or combination thereof, which elects to, or is requiredto establish programs shall participate in a local community-based probationprogram by ordinance or resolution of its governing authority. In cases ofmultijurisdictional participation, each ordinance or resolution shallidentify the chosen administrator and fiscal agent as set forth in 9.1-183.Such ordinances or resolutions shall be provided to the Director of theDepartment, regardless of funding source for the established programs.

B. Any local community-based probation program established pursuant to thisarticle shall be available as a sentencing alternative for persons sentencedto incarceration in a local correctional facility or who otherwise would besentenced to incarceration and who would have served their sentence in alocal or regional correctional facility.

(1992, c. 196, 53.1-185.1; 1994, 2nd Sp. Sess., cc. 1, 2; 2000, c. 1040;2001, c. 844.)