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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>82001</law_id><section_number>16.1-257</section_number><catch_line>Interference with or obstruction of officer; concealment or removal of child</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="16.1">Courts Not of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="11">Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Immediate Custody, Arrest, Detention and Shelter Care</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No person shall interfere with or obstruct any officer, juvenile <span class="dictionary">probation officer</span> or other officer or employee of <span class="dictionary">the court</span> in the discharge of his duties under <span class="dictionary">this law</span>, nor remove or conceal or cause to be removed or concealed any child in <span class="dictionary">order</span> that he or she may not be brought before <span class="dictionary">the court</span>, nor interfere with or remove or attempt to remove any child who is in the <span class="dictionary">custody</span> of <span class="dictionary">the court</span> or of an officer or who has been lawfully committed under <span class="dictionary">this law</span>. Any person willfully violating any provision of this section is guilty of a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 16.1-191; 1956, c. 555; 1977, c. 559.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
