                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FINGERPRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY POLICE AUTHORITIES (§ 19.2-392)

A. All duly constituted police authorities having the power of arrest may take
the fingerprints and photographs of: (i) any person arrested by them and charged
with a felony or a misdemeanor an arrest for which is to be reported by them to
the Central Criminal Records Exchange, (ii) any person who pleads guilty or is
found guilty after being summoned in accordance with subsection B of &#xA7;
19.2-73 or &#xA7; 19.2-74, (iii) any person charged with an offense that has
been deferred by the court pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA7; 18.2-57.3, 18.2-251, or
19.2-303.2, or (iv) upon the order of a court, any person found in contempt or
in violation of the terms or conditions of a suspended sentence or probation for
a felony offense pursuant to &#xA7; 18.2-456, 19.2-306, or 53.1-165. Such
authorities shall make such records available to the Central Criminal Records
Exchange. Such authorities are authorized to provide, on the request of duly
appointed law-enforcement officers, copies of any fingerprint records they may
have, and to furnish services and technical advice in connection with the
taking, classifying and preserving of fingerprints and fingerprint records.

B. Such police authorities may establish and collect a reasonable fee not to
exceed $10 for the first card and $5 for each successive card for the taking of
fingerprints when voluntarily requested by any person for purposes other than
criminal violations.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 19.1-19.6; 1968, c. 722; 1975, c. 495; 1978, c. 825;
1985, c. 306; 2005, c. 347; 2019, cc. 782, 783; 2020, cc. 91, 92, 93, 189.