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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56729</law_id><section_number>53.1-99</section_number><catch_line>Jurisdiction of offenses committed by prisoners</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="3">Local Correctional Facilities</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">County and City Farms</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Whenever any farm is situated beyond the limits of the city establishing and maintaining it, the <span class="dictionary">courts</span> of such city shall have concurrent criminal <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> with the <span class="dictionary">courts</span> of the county or city in which such farm, or any part thereof, is situated of all <span class="dictionary">offenses</span> committed within the boundaries of the farm by persons confined thereto.
		The <span class="dictionary">courts</span> of such city shall have concurrent criminal <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> with the <span class="dictionary">courts</span> of the county or city in which any of these <span class="dictionary">offenses</span> are committed: (i) escape, (ii) <span class="dictionary">larceny</span> of or willful damage or destruction of property owned by the city establishing and maintaining the farm, and (iii) <span class="dictionary">offenses</span> against the person or property of any employee of such city, if such <span class="dictionary">offenses</span> are committed en route between the farm and any other point by any person confined at the farm who is being transported thereto for confinement or being transported therefrom following confinement.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 53-198.1; 1960, c. 286; 1982, c. 636.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
