                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY SEIZED (§ 19.2-58)

If any such warrant be executed by the seizure of property, or of any other of
the things aforesaid, the same shall be safely kept by the direction of such
judge or court, to be used as evidence, and thereafter be disposed of as
provided by law; provided, however, that any such property seized under such
warrant which is not used in evidence and any property which is stolen or
embezzled property shall be restored to its owner, and the things mentioned in
§ 19.2-53 may be burnt or otherwise destroyed, under such direction, as soon as
there is no further need for its use as evidence unless it is otherwise
expressly provided by law.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 19.1-87; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.