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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>83885</law_id><section_number>53.1-70</section_number><catch_line>Jurisdiction of court to enforce orders of Board; proceedings</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>16.1-309.9</reference></referred_to_by><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="3">Local Correctional Facilities</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Establishment and Regulation of Facilities</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> in any county or city which maintains and operates any <span class="dictionary">local correctional facility</span> or <span class="dictionary">lock-up</span>, or in any county in which is situated any town which maintains and operates any <span class="dictionary">local correctional facility</span> or <span class="dictionary">lock-up</span>, affected by any such <span class="dictionary">order</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>, shall have <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> to enforce such <span class="dictionary">order</span> by an <span class="dictionary">injunction</span> or other appropriate remedy at the suit of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>. In the City of Richmond such <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> shall be vested in the <span class="dictionary">Circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">Court</span>, Division I. Such proceeding shall be commenced by a <span class="dictionary">petition</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> in the name of the Commonwealth and shall, insofar as possible, conform to rules of procedure applicable to a <span class="dictionary">civil action</span>. The governing body of each county, city or town which maintains and operates any <span class="dictionary">local correctional facility</span> or <span class="dictionary">lock-up</span> affected by the <span class="dictionary">order</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>, and the officer in charge of each such facility, shall be made parties <span class="dictionary">defendant</span>. In every such proceeding the <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall hear all relevant <span class="dictionary">evidence</span>, including <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> with regard to the condition of the <span class="dictionary">local correctional facility</span> or <span class="dictionary">lock-up</span> and any other <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> bearing upon the propriety of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>&#x2019;s action. The <span class="dictionary">court</span> may refuse to grant the <span class="dictionary">injunction</span> if it appears that the action of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> was not warranted.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 53-135; 1982, c. 636; 2005, c. 681.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
