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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>81435</law_id><section_number>18.2-339</section_number><catch_line>Enjoining offenses relating to gambling</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="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="8">Crimes Involving Morals and Decency</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Gambling</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Whenever any person shall be engaged in committing, or in permitting to be committed, or shall be about to commit, or permit, any act prohibited by any one or more of the sections in this article, the attorney for the Commonwealth of the county or city in which such act is being, or is about to be, committed or permitted, or the <span class="dictionary">Attorney General</span> of the Commonwealth, may institute and maintain a suit in <span class="dictionary">equity</span> in the appropriate <span class="dictionary">court</span>, in the name of the Commonwealth, upon the relation of such attorney for the Commonwealth, or the <span class="dictionary">Attorney General</span>, to enjoin and restrain such person from committing, or permitting, such prohibited act or acts. The procedure in any such suit shall be similar to the procedure in other suits for <span class="dictionary">injunctions</span>, except that no <span class="dictionary">bond</span> shall be required upon the granting of either a temporary or permanent <span class="dictionary">injunction</span> therein.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-343; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
