CODE OF VIRGINIA

REPAYMENT OF REPRESENTATION COSTS BY CONVICTED PERSONS (§ 19.2-163.4:1)

In any case in which an attorney from a public defender office represents an
indigent person charged with an offense and such person is convicted, the sum
that would have been allowed a court-appointed attorney as compensation and as
reasonable expenses shall be taxed against the person defended as a part of the
costs of the prosecution, and, if collected, shall be paid to the Commonwealth
or, if payment was made to the Commonwealth by a locality for defense of a local
ordinance violation, to the appropriate county, city or town. An abstract of
such costs shall be docketed in the judgment lien docket and execution book of
the court.

HISTORY: 2004, cc. 884, 921; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 344, 345.