CODE OF VIRGINIA

COURT DUTIES OF SHERIFF (§ 53.1-119)

The sheriff shall provide officers to attend the courts within his jurisdiction
while such courts are in session as the respective judges may require. The
sheriff, or the superintendent of a regional jail or jail farm, shall receive
into the jail facility all persons committed by the order of such courts, or
under process issuing therefrom, and all persons committed by any other lawful
authority.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 53-162; 1982, c. 636; 1995, c. 112.