CODE OF VIRGINIA

OFFICER NOT REQUIRED TO GO OUT OF HIS JURISDICTION TO PAY OVER MONEY (§
8.01-496)

No officer receiving money under execution, when the person to whom it is
payable resides in a different county or city from that in which the officer
resides, shall be liable to have any judgment rendered against him or his
sureties for the nonpayment thereof, until a demand of payment be made of such
officer in his county or city, by such creditor or his attorney-at-law, or some
person having a written order from the creditor.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-425; 1977, c. 617.