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This law was first created in 2012. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 749<\/a> 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.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":169989,"object_type":"law","relational_id":63097,"identifier":"19.2-340.1","token":"19.2\/21\/1\/19.2-340.1","url":"\/19.2-340.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/19.2-340.1\/","token":"19.2\/21\/1\/19.2-340.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Disposition of fines in criminal cases","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 19.2-340.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

When a law<\/span>-enforcement officer of (i) the Department of State Police or (ii) any other division of the state government makes an arrest<\/span> or issues<\/span> a summons<\/span> for a violation of a provision of the Code of Virginia, the person arrested or summoned shall be charged with a violation of that Code provision and shall not be charged with a substantially similar local ordinance<\/span>. All fines collected upon conviction<\/span> of any person so arrested or summoned shall be credited to the Literary Fund.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDISPOSITION OF FINES IN CRIMINAL CASES (\u00a7 19.2-340.1)\n\nWhen a law-enforcement officer of (i) the Department of State Police or (ii) any\nother division of the state government makes an arrest or issues a summons for a\nviolation of a provision of the Code of Virginia, the person arrested or\nsummoned shall be charged with a violation of that Code provision and shall not\nbe charged with a substantially similar local ordinance. All fines collected\nupon conviction of any person so arrested or summoned shall be credited to the\nLiterary Fund.\n\nHISTORY: 2012, c. 749.","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}}