CODE OF VIRGINIA

EXTRADITION (§ 20-84)

Whenever the judge of, or magistrate serving, the jurisdiction wherein such
offense is alleged to have been committed shall, after an investigation of the
facts and circumstances thereof, certify that in his opinion the charge is well
founded and the case a proper one for extradition, or in any case if the cost of
extradition is borne by the parties interested in the case, the person charged
with having left the Commonwealth with the intention of evading the terms of his
or her probation or of abandoning or deserting his or her spouse, or his or her
child or children, or failing to support them, shall be apprehended and brought
back to the county or city having jurisdiction of the case in accordance with
the law providing for the apprehension and return to the Commonwealth of
fugitives from justice, and upon conviction punished as hereinabove provided.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 1942; 1918, p. 761; 1922, p. 846; 1974, c. 464; 2008, cc.
551, 691.