CODE OF VIRGINIA

DISPOSITION OF FINES IN CRIMINAL CASES (§ 19.2-340.1)

When a law-enforcement officer of (i) the Department of State Police or (ii) any
other division of the state government makes an arrest or issues a summons for a
violation of a provision of the Code of Virginia, the person arrested or
summoned shall be charged with a violation of that Code provision and shall not
be charged with a substantially similar local ordinance. All fines collected
upon conviction of any person so arrested or summoned shall be credited to the
Literary Fund.

HISTORY: 2012, c. 749.