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This law was first created in 2004. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 884<\/a> and 921<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1395417,"object_type":"law","relational_id":351333,"identifier":"19.2-163.4:1","token":"19.2\/10\/4\/19.2-163.4_1","url":"\/19.2-163.4_1\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/19.2-163.4_1\/","token":"19.2\/10\/4\/19.2-163.4_1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Repayment of representation costs by convicted persons","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 19.2-163.4:1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

In any case in which an attorney from a public defender<\/span> office represents an indigent<\/span> person charged with an offense<\/span> and such person is convicted, the sum that would have been allowed a court<\/span>-appointed attorney as compensation and as reasonable expenses shall be taxed against the person defended as a part of the costs of the prosecution<\/span>, and, if collected, shall be paid to the Commonwealth or, if payment was made to the Commonwealth by a locality for defense of a local ordinance<\/span> violation, to the appropriate county, city or town. An abstract of such costs shall be docketed in the judgment lien docket<\/span> and execution book of the court<\/span>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nREPAYMENT OF REPRESENTATION COSTS BY CONVICTED PERSONS (\u00a7 19.2-163.4:1)\n\nIn any case in which an attorney from a public defender office represents an\nindigent person charged with an offense and such person is convicted, the sum\nthat would have been allowed a court-appointed attorney as compensation and as\nreasonable expenses shall be taxed against the person defended as a part of the\ncosts of the prosecution, and, if collected, shall be paid to the Commonwealth\nor, if payment was made to the Commonwealth by a locality for defense of a local\nordinance violation, to the appropriate county, city or town. An abstract of\nsuch costs shall be docketed in the judgment lien docket and execution book of\nthe court.\n\nHISTORY: 2004, cc. 884, 921; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 344, 345.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}