                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

AWARDS NOT SUBJECT TO EXECUTION OR ATTACHMENT; APPORTIONMENT; REDUCTIONS (§
19.2-368.12)

A. No award made pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to execution or
attachment other than for expenses resulting from the injury which is the basis
for the claim.

B. If there are two or more persons entitled to an award as a result of the
death of a person which is the direct result of a crime, the award shall be
apportioned among the claimants.

C. In determining the amount of an award, the Commission shall determine
whether, because of his conduct, the victim of such crime contributed to the
infliction of his injury, and the Commission shall reduce the amount of the
award or reject the claim altogether, in accordance with such determination;
provided, however, that the Commission may disregard for this purpose the
responsibility of the victim for his own injury where the record shows that such
responsibility was attributable to efforts by the victim to prevent a crime or
an attempted crime from occurring in his presence, or to apprehend a person who
had committed a crime in his presence or had, in fact, committed a felony.

HISTORY: 1976, c. 605; 1977, c. 215; 1989, c. 335.