CODE OF VIRGINIA

APPEAL BY ATTORNEY GENERAL; EMERGENCY CUSTODY ORDER (§ 37.2-920)

In any case in which the Attorney General successfully appeals the trial
court’s denial of probable cause, denial of civil commitment or
conditional release, or discharge or placement on conditional release after an
annual review hearing, upon the issuance of the mandate by the Supreme Court of
Virginia, the trial court shall immediately issue an emergency custody order to
any local law-enforcement official to have the person taken into custody and
held in the local correctional facility, pending further appropriate
proceedings.

HISTORY: 2006, cc. 863, 914.