Bill Text: VA HB1973 | 2011 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Court clerks' office; may transmit copies of orders for transfer of prisoners, etc.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-03-24 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0470) [HB1973 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2011-HB1973-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That §§ 8.01-353.1, 19.2-310, and 38.2-2419 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows: § 8.01-353.1. Jurors to provide identification. At the time of assembly for the purpose of juror selection, § 19.2-310. Transfer of prisoners to custody of Director of Department of Corrections. Every person sentenced by a court to the Department of
Corrections upon conviction of a felony shall be conveyed to an appropriate
receiving unit operated by the Department in the manner hereinafter provided.
The clerk of the court in which the person is sentenced shall forthwith transmit
to the Central Criminal Records Exchange the report of dispositions required by
§ 19.2-390. The clerk of the court within Following receipt of the order of trial and a certified copy of the complete final order, the Director or his designee shall dispatch a correctional officer to the county or city with a warrant directed to the sheriff authorizing him to deliver the prisoner to the correctional officer whose duty it shall be to take charge of the person and convey him to an appropriate receiving unit designated by the Director or his designee. The Director or his designee shall allocate space available in the receiving unit or units by giving first priority to the transportation, as the transportation facilities of the Department may permit, of those persons held in jails who in the opinion of the Director or his designee except as required by § 53.1-20 require immediate transportation to a receiving unit. In making such a determination of priority, the Director shall give due regard to the capacity of local as well as state correctional facilities and, to the extent feasible, shall seek to balance between local and state correctional facilities the excess of prisoners requiring detention. § 38.2-2419. Marginal notation of revocation; indexing. When the power of attorney has been revoked in accordance with § 38.2-2417, the clerk in whose office the power of attorney is recorded shall note its revocation on the margin of the page of the deed book where the power of attorney is recorded, together with a reference to the book and page where the instrument of revocation is recorded. The clerk may require that a revocation of a power of attorney be prepared as a separate instrument setting forth the necessary information, and such instrument shall be recorded and indexed according to law. The clerk shall index the instrument of revocation both in the name of the fidelity and surety insurer and of its attorney-in-fact. |