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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80529</law_id><section_number>19.2-76</section_number><catch_line>Execution and return of warrant, capias or summons; arrest outside county or city where charge is to be tried</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-968.1</reference><reference>19.2-298</reference><reference>19.2-73.1</reference><reference>19.2-76.2</reference><reference>19.2-77</reference><reference>19.2-80.2</reference><reference>33.2-501</reference><reference>33.2-503</reference><reference>46.2-1219.2</reference><reference>46.2-819.1</reference><reference>46.2-819.3</reference><reference>46.2-819.3:1</reference><reference>46.2-844</reference><reference>46.2-882.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="19.2">Criminal Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="7">Arrest</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement officer may execute within his <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> a warrant, <span class="dictionary">capias</span> or <span class="dictionary">summons</span> issued anywhere in the Commonwealth. A jail officer as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/53.1-1/">53.1-1</a> employed at a regional jail or jail farm may execute upon a person being held in his jail a warrant, <span class="dictionary">capias</span> or <span class="dictionary">summons</span> issued anywhere in the Commonwealth. A warrant or <span class="dictionary">capias</span> shall be executed by the <span class="dictionary">arrest</span> of the <span class="dictionary">accused</span>, and a <span class="dictionary">summons</span> shall be executed by delivering a copy to the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> personally.
		If the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> is a corporation, partnership, unincorporated association or legal entity other than an individual, a <span class="dictionary">summons</span> may be executed by service on the entity in the same manner as provided in Title 8.01 for <span class="dictionary">service of process</span> on that entity in a civil proceeding. However, if the <span class="dictionary">summons</span> is served on the entity by delivery to a registered agent or to any other agent who is not an officer, director, managing agent or employee of the entity, such agent shall not be personally subject to <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> for failure to appear as provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Penalties for failure to appear" href="/19.2-128/">19.2-128</a>, nor shall the agent be subject to punishment for <span class="dictionary">contempt</span> for failure to appear under his <span class="dictionary">summons</span> as provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Power of court to punish for contempt" href="/19.2-129/">19.2-129</a>.
		The <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement officer or jail officer executing a warrant or <span class="dictionary">capias</span> shall endorse the date of execution thereon and make return thereof to a judicial officer. The <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement officer executing a <span class="dictionary">summons</span> shall endorse the date of execution thereon and make return thereof to the <span class="dictionary">court</span> to which the <span class="dictionary">summons</span> is returnable.
		Whenever a person is arrested upon a warrant or <span class="dictionary">capias</span> in a county or city other than that in which the charge is to be tried, the <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement officer or jail officer making the <span class="dictionary">arrest</span> shall either (i) bring the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> forthwith before a judicial officer in the locality where the <span class="dictionary">arrest</span> was made or where the charge is to be tried or (ii) commit the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> to the <span class="dictionary">custody</span> of an officer from the county or city where the charge is to be tried who shall bring the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> forthwith before a judicial officer in the county or city in which the charge is to be tried. The judicial officer before whom the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> is brought shall immediately conduct a <span class="dictionary">bail</span> <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> and either admit the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> to <span class="dictionary">bail</span> or commit him to jail for transfer forthwith to the county or city where the charge is to be tried.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 19.1-98, 19.1-99; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495; 1979, c. 661; 1993, c. 431; 1994, c. 933; 1997, c. 10; 1998, c. 615; 2013, c. 207.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
