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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>363203</law_id><section_number>4.1-337</section_number><catch_line>Search warrants</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="7" identifier="4.1">Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Alcoholic Beverage Control Act</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="5" identifier="3">Prohibited Practices; Penalties; Procedural Matters</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="4" identifier="3">Procedural Matters</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> If complaint on <span class="dictionary">oath</span> is made that <span class="dictionary">alcoholic beverages</span> are being manufactured, sold, kept, stored, or in any manner held, used or concealed in a particular house, or other place, in violation of <span class="dictionary">law</span>, the <span class="dictionary">judge</span>, <span class="dictionary">magistrate</span>, or other person having <span class="dictionary">authority</span> to <span class="dictionary">issue</span> criminal warrants, to whom such complaint is made, if satisfied that there is a <span class="dictionary">probable cause</span> for such belief, shall <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a warrant to search such house or other place for <span class="dictionary">alcoholic beverages</span>. Such warrants, except as herein otherwise provided, shall be issued, directed and executed in accordance with the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the Commonwealth pertaining to <span class="dictionary">search warrants</span>. <a id="paragraph-1353596" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/4.1-337/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Warrants issued under this subtitle for the search of any automobile, boat, conveyance or vehicle, whether of like kind or not, or for the search of any article of baggage, whether of like kind or not, for <span class="dictionary">alcoholic beverages</span>, may be executed in any part of the Commonwealth where they are overtaken and shall be made returnable before any <span class="dictionary">judge</span> within whose <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> such automobile, boat, conveyance, vehicle, truck, or article of baggage, or any of them, was transported or attempted to be transported contrary to <span class="dictionary">law</span>. <a id="paragraph-1353597" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/4.1-337/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 4-54; 1993, c. 866.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
