                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ENJOINING OFFENSES RELATING TO GAMBLING (§ 18.2-339)

Whenever any person shall be engaged in committing, or in permitting to be
committed, or shall be about to commit, or permit, any act prohibited by any one
or more of the sections in this article, the attorney for the Commonwealth of
the county or city in which such act is being, or is about to be, committed or
permitted, or the Attorney General of the Commonwealth, may institute and
maintain a suit in equity in the appropriate court, in the name of the
Commonwealth, upon the relation of such attorney for the Commonwealth, or the
Attorney General, to enjoin and restrain such person from committing, or
permitting, such prohibited act or acts. The procedure in any such suit shall be
similar to the procedure in other suits for injunctions, except that no bond
shall be required upon the granting of either a temporary or permanent
injunction therein.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-343; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.