                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COMMITMENT TO WORKHOUSE, CITY FARM OR WORK SQUAD FOR SUCH DESERTION (§ 20-62)

In the event that the cities or counties of this Commonwealth or any of them
establish workhouses, city farms or work squads on which prisoners are put to
work, persons convicted of nonsupport under the provisions of this chapter may
be committed to the farms, workhouses or work squads instead of to jail. Persons
sentenced to jail or to a workhouse or city farm under the provisions of this
chapter shall be required to do such work as they are capable of in accordance
with the opinion of the physician examining such persons pursuant to § 53.1-33
and shall be returned, when released, to the court which exercised original
jurisdiction in the case and by that court may be placed on probation upon the
terms and conditions and in the manner prescribed by law for probation of
original offenders in such cases.

HISTORY: 1944, p. 210; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 1936; 1954, c. 481; 1970, c. 630;
1978, c. 377.