                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

HOW FINES DISPOSED OF; INFORMER (§ 19.2-351)

Although a law may allow an informer or person prosecuting to have part of a
fine or penalty, the whole thereof shall go to the Commonwealth, unless the name
of such informer or prosecutor be endorsed on, or written at the foot of, the
presentment at the time it is made, or of the indictment before it is presented
to the grand jury, or of the information before it is filed, or of the writ
issued in the action, or the process on the warrant, or the notice of the motion
before service of such writ, process, or notice.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 19.1-344; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.