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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69593</law_id><section_number>18.2-471.1</section_number><catch_line>Destruction of human biological evidence; penalty</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="10">Crimes Against the Administration of Justice</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Interference With Administration of Justice</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any <span class="dictionary">clerk of court</span> or other public official who willfully violates an <span class="dictionary">order</span> entered pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Storage, preservation and retention of human biological evidence in felony cases" href="/19.2-270.4_1/">19.2-270.4:1</a> is guilty of a Class 6 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>.</p></section></text><history>2006, c. 913.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
