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This law was first created in 1976. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 589 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1976 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1989, chapter 733.<\/p>","references":[{"id":60081,"section_number":"19.2-387","catch_line":"Exchange to operate as a division of Department of State Police; authority of Superintendent of State Police","order_by":null,"url":"\/19.2-387\/"},{"id":62575,"section_number":"2.2-3802","catch_line":"Systems to which chapter inapplicable","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-3802\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":160929,"object_type":"law","relational_id":73114,"identifier":"16.1-222","token":"16.1\/10\/16.1-222","url":"\/16.1-222\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/16.1-222\/","token":"16.1\/10\/16.1-222","dublin_core":{"Title":"Established; powers of Director","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 16.1-222","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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B.<\/span> The Director of the Department of Juvenile Justice is authorized to employ such personnel, establish such offices, acquire such equipment and use such available equipment as shall be necessary to carry out the purpose of this chapter. He is further authorized to enter into agreements with other state agencies for services to be performed for the Virginia Juvenile Justice Information System by employees of such other agencies. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nESTABLISHED; POWERS OF DIRECTOR (\u00a7 16.1-222)\n\nA. There is hereby established within the Department of Juvenile Justice the\nVirginia Juvenile Justice Information System which shall operate separate and\napart from the Central Criminal Records Exchange.\n\nB. The Director of the Department of Juvenile Justice is authorized to employ\nsuch personnel, establish such offices, acquire such equipment and use such\navailable equipment as shall be necessary to carry out the purpose of this\nchapter. He is further authorized to enter into agreements with other state\nagencies for services to be performed for the Virginia Juvenile Justice\nInformation System by employees of such other agencies.\n\nHISTORY: 1976, c. 589; 1989, c. 733.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}