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This law was first created in 2007. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 486<\/a> and 723<\/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":237491,"object_type":"law","relational_id":56962,"identifier":"52-34.5","token":"52\/7.2\/52-34.5","url":"\/52-34.5\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/52-34.5\/","token":"52\/7.2\/52-34.5","dublin_core":{"Title":"Establishment of the Virginia Senior Alert Program","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 52-34.5","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The Virginia State Police shall develop policies for the establishment of uniform standards for the creation of Senior Alert Programs<\/span> throughout the Commonwealth. The Virginia State Police shall (i) inform local law<\/span>-enforcement officials of the policies and procedures to be used for the Senior Alert Programs<\/span>; (ii) assist in determining the geographic scope of a particular Senior Alert; and (iii) establish procedures and standards by which a local law<\/span>-enforcement agency shall verify that a senior adult is missing and shall report such information to the Virginia State Police.\n\t\tThe establishment of a Senior Alert Program<\/span> by a local law<\/span>-enforcement agency and the media<\/span> is voluntary, and nothing in this chapter shall be construed to be a mandate<\/span> that local officials or the media<\/span> establish or participate in a Senior Alert Program<\/span>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nESTABLISHMENT OF THE VIRGINIA SENIOR ALERT PROGRAM (\u00a7 52-34.5)\n\nThe Virginia State Police shall develop policies for the establishment of\nuniform standards for the creation of Senior Alert Programs throughout the\nCommonwealth. The Virginia State Police shall (i) inform local law-enforcement\nofficials of the policies and procedures to be used for the Senior Alert\nPrograms; (ii) assist in determining the geographic scope of a particular Senior\nAlert; and (iii) establish procedures and standards by which a local\nlaw-enforcement agency shall verify that a senior adult is missing and shall\nreport such information to the Virginia State Police.\n\t\tThe establishment of a Senior Alert Program by a local law-enforcement agency\nand the media is voluntary, and nothing in this chapter shall be construed to be\na mandate that local officials or the media establish or participate in a Senior\nAlert Program.\n\nHISTORY: 2007, cc. 486, 723.","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}}