                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RECEIPT OF MISSING CHILD REPORTS (§ 15.2-1718)

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
child report as defined in § 52-32. Upon receipt of a missing child 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 child into the Virginia Criminal Information Network
and the National Crime Information Center Systems, forward the report to the
Missing Children Information Clearinghouse within the Department of State
Police, notify all other law-enforcement agencies in the area, and initiate an
investigation of the case.

HISTORY: 1985, c. 259, § 15.1-131.9; 1990, c. 239; 1997, c. 587; 2004, cc. 248,
443.