                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DISPOSITION OF FIREARMS ACQUIRED BY LOCALITIES (§ 15.2-915.5)

A. No locality or agent of such locality may participate in any program in which
individuals are given a thing of value provided by another individual or other
entity in exchange for surrendering a firearm to the locality or agent of such
locality unless the governing body of the locality has enacted an ordinance,
pursuant to &#xA7; 15.2-1425, authorizing the participation of the locality or
agent of such locality in such program.

B. Any ordinance enacted pursuant to this section shall require that any firearm
received, except a firearm of the type defined in &#xA7; 18.2-288 or 18.2-299 or
a firearm the transfer for which is prohibited by federal law, shall be
destroyed by the locality unless the person surrendering the firearm requests in
writing that the firearm be offered for sale by public auction or sealed bids to
a person licensed as a dealer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. &#xA7; 921 et seq. Notice of
the date, time, and place of any sale conducted pursuant to this subsection
shall be given by advertisement in at least two newspapers published and having
general circulation in the Commonwealth, at least one of which shall have
general circulation in the locality in which the property to be sold is located.
At least 30 days shall elapse between publication of the notice and the auction
or the date on which sealed bids will be opened. Any firearm remaining in
possession of the locality or agent of the locality after attempts to sell at
public auction or by sealed bids shall be disposed of in a manner the locality
deems proper, which may include destruction of the firearm or, subject to any
registration requirements of federal law, sale of the firearm to a licensed
dealer.

HISTORY: 2012, c. 211; 2020, cc. 1205, 1247.