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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>78113</law_id><section_number>18.2-474.1</section_number><catch_line>Delivery of drugs, firearms, explosives, etc., to prisoners or committed persons</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>17.1-805</reference><reference>18.2-474.2</reference><reference>19.2-386.22</reference><reference>19.2-392.02</reference><reference>19.2-81.1</reference><reference>54.1-2523</reference></referred_to_by><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="7">Escape of, Communications with and Deliveries to Prisoners</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Notwithstanding the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Delivery of articles to prisoners or committed person" href="/18.2-474/">18.2-474</a>, any person who shall willfully in any manner deliver, attempt to deliver, or conspire with another to deliver to any prisoner confined under authority of the Commonwealth of Virginia, or of any political subdivision thereof, or to any person committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice in any juvenile correctional center, any drug which is a controlled substance regulated by the Drug Control Act in Chapter 34 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Citation" href="/54.1-3400/">54.1-3400</a> et seq.) of Title 54.1 or marijuana is guilty of a Class 5 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. Any person who shall willfully in any manner so deliver or attempt to deliver or conspire to deliver to any such prisoner or confined or committed person, firearms, ammunitions, or explosives of any nature is guilty of a Class 3 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>.
		Nothing herein contained shall be construed to repeal or <span class="dictionary">amend</span> &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Persons aiding escape of prisoner or child" href="/18.2-473/">18.2-473</a>.</p></section></text><history>1975, c. 608; 1982, c. 490; 2011, cc. 384, 410; 2013, cc. 707, 782; 2014, cc. 674, 719.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
