                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

APPEAL BY ATTORNEY GENERAL; EMERGENCY CUSTODY ORDER (§ 37.2-920)

In any case in which the Attorney General successfully appeals the trial
court&#8217;s denial of probable cause, denial of civil commitment or
conditional release, or discharge or placement on conditional release after an
annual review hearing, upon the issuance of the mandate by the Court of Appeals,
the trial court shall immediately issue an emergency custody order to any local
law-enforcement official to have the person taken into custody and held in the
local correctional facility, pending further appropriate proceedings.

HISTORY: 2006, cc. 863, 914; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 489.