CODE OF VIRGINIA

OFFICERS, ETC., WILLFULLY AND DELIBERATELY PERMITTING PERSON CONVICTED OF,
CHARGED WITH, OR ADJUDICATED DELINQUENT OF A NONFELONIOUS OFFENSE TO ESCAPE OR
WILLFULLY REFUSING TO RECEIVE PERSON; PENALTY (§ 18.2-476)

If any sheriff, jailer, or other officer, or any guard or other person summoned
or employed by such sheriff, jailer, or other officer, willfully and
deliberately permits a prisoner or person committed to the Department of
Juvenile Justice convicted of, charged with, or adjudicated delinquent of an
offense not a felony, to escape from his custody, or willfully refuses to
receive into his custody a person lawfully committed thereto, he is guilty of a
Class 2 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-287; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1983, c. 360;
2013, cc. 707, 782.