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2014 Virginia Code
Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally
§ 18.2-469. Officer refusing, delaying, etc., to execute process for criminal
VA Code § 18.2-469 (2014) What's This?
If any officer willfully and corruptly refuse to execute any lawful process requiring him to apprehend or confine a person convicted of, or charged with, an offense, or willfully and corruptly omit or delay to execute such process, whereby such person shall escape and go at large, such officer shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
Code 1950, ยง 18.1-300; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.
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