                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

IMMUNITY OF LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, ETC.; CHAPTER NOT EXCLUSIVE (§
19.2-152.17)

A. An attorney for the Commonwealth or a law-enforcement officer shall be immune
from civil liability for any act or omission related to petitioning or declining
to petition for a substantial risk order pursuant to this chapter.

B. Any law-enforcement agency or law-enforcement officer that takes into
custody, stores, possesses, or transports a firearm pursuant to &#xA7;
19.2-152.13 or 19.2-152.14, or by a search warrant for a person who has failed
to voluntarily relinquish his firearm, shall be immune from civil or criminal
liability for any damage to or deterioration, loss, or theft of such firearm.

C. Nothing in this chapter precludes a law-enforcement officer from conducting a
search for a firearm or removing a firearm from a person under any other lawful
authority.

HISTORY: 2020, cc. 887, 888.