                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FORFEITURE OF OFFICE BY PERSON SENTENCED FOR COMMISSION OF CERTAIN CRIMES (§
24.2-231)

Any person holding any public office of honor, profit, or trust in this
Commonwealth who is convicted of a felony or any offense for which registration
is required as defined in § 9.1-902 and for whom all rights of appeal under
Virginia law have expired, shall by such final conviction forfeit his office or
post and thereafter may not act therein under his previous election or
appointment. A pardon which may be afterwards granted him shall not void the
forfeiture.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 2.1-36; 1966, c. 677; 1975, cc. 515, 595, § 24.1-79.3;
1993, c. 641; 2007, c. 175.