                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RECEIPT OF MISSING SENIOR ADULT REPORTS (§ 15.2-1718.1)

A. No police or sheriff&#8217;s department shall establish or maintain any
policy which requires the observance of any waiting period before accepting a
missing senior adult report. Upon receipt of a missing senior adult report by
any police or sheriff&#8217;s department, the department shall immediately, but
in all cases within two hours of receiving the report, enter identifying and
descriptive data about the senior adult into the Virginia Criminal Information
Network and the National Crime Information Center Systems, forward the report to
the Department of State Police, notify all other law-enforcement agencies in the
area, and initiate an investigation of the case.

B. For purposes of this section:
			&#8220;Missing senior adult report&#8221; means a report prepared in a format
prescribed by the Superintendent of State Police for use by law-enforcement
agencies to report missing senior adult information and photograph to the
Department of State Police.

HISTORY: 2007, cc. 486, 723.