                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

VENUE FOR CRIMINAL SEXUAL ASSAULT OR WHERE ANY PERSON TRANSPORTED FOR CRIMINAL
SEXUAL ASSAULT, ATTEMPTED CRIMINAL SEXUAL ASSAULT, OR PURPOSES OF UNLAWFUL
SEXUAL INTERCOURSE, CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, AND INDECENT LIBERTIES WITH CHILDREN;
VENUE FOR SUCH CRIMES WHEN COUPLED WITH A VIOLENT FELONY (§ 18.2-359)

A. Any person transporting or attempting to transport through or across the
Commonwealth any person for the purposes of unlawful sexual intercourse, anal
intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, or anilingus or prostitution, or for the
purpose of committing any crime specified in &#xA7; 18.2-361, 18.2-370, or
18.2-370.1, or for the purposes of committing or attempting to commit criminal
sexual assault under Article 7 (&#xA7; 18.2-61 et seq.) of Chapter 4, may be
presented, indicted, tried, and convicted in any county or city in which any
part of such transportation occurred.

B. Venue for the trial of any person charged with committing or attempting to
commit any crime specified in &#xA7; 18.2-361, 18.2-370, or 18.2-370.1, or
sexual assault under Article 7 (&#xA7; 18.2-61 et seq.) of Chapter 4 may be had
in the county or city in which such crime is alleged to have occurred or, with
the concurrence of the attorney for the Commonwealth in the county or city in
which the crime is alleged to have occurred, in any county or city through which
the victim was transported by the defendant prior to the commission of such
offense.

C. Venue for the trial of any person charged with committing or attempting to
commit criminal sexual assault under Article 7 (&#xA7; 18.2-61 et seq.) of
Chapter 4 against a person under 18 years of age may be had in the county or
city in which such crime is alleged to have occurred or, when the county or city
where the offense is alleged to have occurred cannot be determined, then in the
county or city where the person under 18 years of age resided at the time of the
offense.

D. Venue for the trial of any person charged with committing or attempting to
commit (i) any crime specified in &#xA7; 18.2-361, 18.2-370, or 18.2-370.1, or
criminal sexual assault under Article 7 (&#xA7; 18.2-61 et seq.) of Chapter 4
and (ii) any violent felony as defined in &#xA7; 17.1-805 or any act of violence
as defined in &#xA7; 19.2-297.1 arising out of the same incident, occurrence, or
transaction may be had in the county or city in which any such crime is alleged
to have occurred or, with the concurrence of the attorney for the Commonwealth
in the county or city in which the crime is alleged to have occurred, in any
county or city through which the victim was transported by the defendant in the
commission of such offense.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-210; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1976, c. 54;
1978, c. 610; 1981, c. 397; 2004, c. 869; 2011, c. 763; 2014, c. 794; 2015, c.
555.