§ 37.2-920 Appeal by Attorney General; emergency custody order
In any case in which the Attorney General successfully appeals the trial court’s denial of probable cause, denial of civil commitment or conditional release, or discharge or placement on conditional release after an annual review hearing, upon the issuance of the mandate by the Court of Appeals, the trial court shall immediately issue an emergency custody order to any local law-enforcement official to have the person taken into custody and held in the local correctional facility, pending further appropriate proceedings.
History
This law was first created in 2006. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 863 and 914 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2021, chapter 489 of the Special Session I.
2006, cc. 863, 914; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 489.