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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>59291</law_id><section_number>15.2-1527</section_number><catch_line>Bonds of officers</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="15.2">Counties, Cities and Towns</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Powers of Local Government</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="15">Local Government Personnel, Qualification for Office, Bonds, Dual Office Holding and Certain Local Government Officers</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="5">Bonds</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Every treasurer or director of finance, sheriff, clerk of a <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span>, commissioner of the revenue, and other persons in the offices of <span class="dictionary">constitutional officers</span> required to give <span class="dictionary">bond</span> shall, at the time he qualifies, give such <span class="dictionary">bond</span> as is required by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Provisions and conditions; acknowledgment and recordation; duty of clerk when taken in pending cause" href="/49-12/">49-12</a>. <span class="dictionary">Bonds</span> for a treasurer or director of finance, sheriff, clerk of the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> and commissioner of the revenue shall be provided through the state Department of the Treasury, Division of Risk Management pursuant to subsection B of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Blanket surety bond plan for state and local employees" href="/2.2-1840/">2.2-1840</a>. The <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> of the <span class="dictionary">bond</span> of each officer shall be determined by the <span class="dictionary">court</span> or clerk before whom he qualifies, within the limits prescribed in &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Penalties of bonds of sheriffs, clerks of the circuit court and commissioners of the revenue" href="/15.2-1528/">15.2-1528</a>, <a class="law" title="Amount of bond of treasurer or director of finance of counties" href="/15.2-1529/">15.2-1529</a> and <a class="law" title="Bonds required of treasurers or directors of finance of cities" href="/15.2-1530/">15.2-1530</a>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 15-478; 1962, c. 623, &#xA7; 15.1-41; 1964, c. 278; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 155; 1972, c. 549; 1997, c. 587; 2000, cc. 618, 632.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
