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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80973</law_id><section_number>53.1-173</section_number><catch_line>Preliminary hearings for out-of-state parolees in Virginia</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="53.1">Prisons and Other Methods of Correction</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="4">Probation and Parole</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="5">Virginia Model Interstate Parole and Probation Hearings Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>In any case in which any person released on <span class="dictionary">parole</span> from another state is present in Virginia, if such person is not present in Virginia pursuant to the provisions of Article 4 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Governor to execute compact" href="/53.1-166/">53.1-166</a> et seq.), upon request by the duly constituted judicial or administrative authorities of such other state, the compact administrator of Virginia or his designee shall cause to be conducted a <span class="dictionary">preliminary hearing</span> to determine <span class="dictionary">probable cause</span> for violation of conditions of <span class="dictionary">parole</span>. Such <span class="dictionary">preliminary hearing</span> shall be substantially similar to the hearing provided for in &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Procedure when reincarceration of out-of-state parolee or probationer should be considered" href="/53.1-168/">53.1-168</a> through <a class="law" title="Hearings for parolees, probationers or felons serving a period of postrelease supervision being supervised in another state" href="/53.1-172/">53.1-172</a>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 53-290.7; 1975, c. 39; 1977, c. 106; 1982, c. 636.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
