CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHERE PRISONER KEPT WHEN NO VACANCY IN FACILITY OR HOSPITAL (§ 19.2-178)

When a court shall have entered any of the orders provided for in § 19.2-168.1,
19.2-169.1, 19.2-169.5, or 19.2-169.6, the sheriff of the county or city or the
proper officer of the penal institution shall immediately proceed to ascertain
whether a vacancy exists at the proper facility or hospital and until it is
ascertained that there is a vacancy such person shall be kept in the jail of
such county or city or in such custody as the court may order, or in the penal
institution in which he is confined, until there is room in such facility or
hospital. Any person whose care and custody is herein provided for shall be
taken to and from the facility or hospital to which he was committed by an
officer of the penal institution having custody of him, or by the sheriff of the
county or city whose court issued the order of commitment, and the expenses
incurred in such removals shall be paid by such penal institution, county or
city.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 19.1-236; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495; 1995, c. 645; 2010,
cc. 340, 406.