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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77943</law_id><section_number>19.2-336</section_number><catch_line>Clerk to make up statement of whole cost, and issue execution therefor</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="19.2">Criminal Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="20">Taxation and Allowance of Costs</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>In every criminal case the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> in which the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> is found guilty or is placed on <span class="dictionary">probation</span> during deferral of the proceedings pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Delinquent juveniles" href="/16.1-278.8/">16.1-278.8</a>, <a class="law" title="Delinquent children; loss of driving privileges for alcohol, firearm, and drug offenses; truancy" href="/16.1-278.9/">16.1-278.9</a>, <a class="law" title="Rape" href="/18.2-61/">18.2-61</a>, <a class="law" title="Forcible sodomy" href="/18.2-67.1/">18.2-67.1</a>, <a class="law" title="Object sexual penetration; penalty" href="/18.2-67.2/">18.2-67.2</a>, <a class="law" title="Persons charged with first offense may be placed on probation; conditions; substance abuse screening, assessment treatment and education programs or services; drug tests; costs and fees; violations; discharge" href="/18.2-251/">18.2-251</a>, <a class="law" title="Deferred disposition in a criminal case" href="/19.2-298.02/">19.2-298.02</a>, <a class="law" title="Persons charged with first offense may be placed on probation" href="/19.2-303.2/">19.2-303.2</a>, or <a class="law" title="Deferred disposition in a criminal case; persons with autism or intellectual disabilities" href="/19.2-303.6/">19.2-303.6</a> or, if the <span class="dictionary">conviction</span> is in a district <span class="dictionary">court</span>, the clerk to which the <span class="dictionary">judge</span> thereof certifies as aforesaid, shall, as soon as may be, make up a statement of all the expenses incident to the <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span>, including such as are certified under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Judge of district court to certify to clerk of circuit court costs of proceedings in criminal cases before him" href="/19.2-335/">19.2-335</a>, and execution for the amount of such expenses shall be issued and proceeded with. Chapter 21 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Word &quot;fine&quot; construed" href="/19.2-339/">19.2-339</a> et seq.) shall apply thereto in like manner as if, on the day of completing the statement, there was a <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> in such <span class="dictionary">court</span> in favor of the Commonwealth against the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> for such amount as a fine. However, in any case in which an <span class="dictionary">accused</span> <span class="dictionary">waives</span> <span class="dictionary">trial</span> by <span class="dictionary">jury</span>, at least 10 days before <span class="dictionary">trial</span>, but the Commonwealth or the <span class="dictionary">court</span> trying the case refuses to so <span class="dictionary">waive</span>, then the cost of the <span class="dictionary">jury</span> shall not be included in such statement or <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> recorded pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Amounts to be added; judgment in favor of the Commonwealth" href="/17.1-275.5/">17.1-275.5</a>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 19.1-320; 1960, c. 366; 1970, c. 429; 1975, c. 495; 1978, c. 716; 1995, c. 485; 2005, c. 631; 2012, c. 714; 2020, c. 1004; 2020, Sp. Sess. I, c. 21.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
