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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>367674</law_id><section_number>53.1-208</section_number><catch_line>Prisoners indicted or charged with crime outside Virginia; certificate; authority of officer with custody of prisoner</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="117" identifier="53.1">Prisons and Other Methods of Correction</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="7" identifier="7">Crimes and Criminal Proceedings Involving Prisoners</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="2" identifier="2">Prisoners as Witnesses or Charged With Other Crimes</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If a similar certificate, similarly executed, shall state that a prisoner has been indicted or stands legally charged with a <span class="dictionary">crime</span> outside Virginia, the <span class="dictionary">Director</span> may, with the approval of the Governor, likewise deliver the prisoner to the officer presenting the certificate. Such delivery may be conditioned upon the return of the prisoner under such circumstances as the Governor may prescribe.</p><p>Any officer of the United States, the District of Columbia, or any other state to whom <span class="dictionary">custody</span> of any such prisoner has been surrendered, is hereby clothed with the authority and powers of a sheriff or a state <span class="dictionary">correctional officer</span> with respect to the <span class="dictionary">custody</span> of the prisoner in this Commonwealth.</p><p>Any duly authorized officer of the United States, the District of Columbia, or any other state, while engaged in transporting through Virginia to any other state any prisoner of the United States, the District of Columbia, or any other state, lawfully taken or surrendered into his <span class="dictionary">custody</span> either within or without Virginia in any manner, shall while transporting such prisoner into or through Virginia, be clothed with all of the authority and powers of a sheriff or of a state <span class="dictionary">correctional officer</span> with respect to the <span class="dictionary">custody</span> of the prisoner in this Commonwealth.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 53-303; 1982, c. 636.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
