Interference With Administration of Justice

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This is Article 6 of the Code of Virginia, titled “Interference With Administration of Justice.” It is part of Chapter 10 “Crimes Against the Administration of Justice”, which is part of Title 18.2 “Crimes and Offenses Generally”. It contains 20 laws.

It’s comprised of the following 20 sections.

§ 18.2-460	Obstructing justice; resisting arrest; fleeing from a law-enforcement officer; penalties
§ 18.2-460.1	Unlawful disclosure of existence of order authorizing wire or oral interception of communication
§ 18.2-461	Falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials
§ 18.2-461.1	False emergency communication to emergency personnel; penalties
§ 18.2-462	Concealing or compounding offenses; penalties
§ 18.2-462.1	Use of police radio during commission of crime
§ 18.2-463	Refusal to aid officer in execution of his office
§ 18.2-464	Failure to obey order of conservator of the peace
§ 18.2-465	Officer summoning juror to act impartially
§ 18.2-465.1	Penalizing employee for court appearance or service on jury panel
§ 18.2-465.2	Contact with jurors after trial prohibited; penalty
§ 18.2-466	Corruptly procuring juror to be summoned
§ 18.2-467	Fraud in drawing jurors, etc
§ 18.2-468	Making sound recordings of jury deliberations
§ 18.2-469	Officer refusing, delaying, etc., to execute process for criminal
§ 18.2-470	Extortion by officer
§ 18.2-471	Fraudulent issue of fee bills
§ 18.2-471.1	Destruction of human biological evidence; penalty
§ 18.2-472	False entries or destruction of records by officers
§ 18.2-472.1	Providing false information or failing to provide registration information; penalty; prima facie evidence