                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PRISONERS INDICTED OR CHARGED WITH CRIME OUTSIDE VIRGINIA; CERTIFICATE;
AUTHORITY OF OFFICER WITH CUSTODY OF PRISONER (§ 53.1-208)

If a similar certificate, similarly executed, shall state that a prisoner has
been indicted or stands legally charged with a crime outside Virginia, the
Director may, with the approval of the Governor, likewise deliver the prisoner
to the officer presenting the certificate. Such delivery may be conditioned upon
the return of the prisoner under such circumstances as the Governor may
prescribe.
		Any officer of the United States, the District of Columbia, or any other state
to whom custody of any such prisoner has been surrendered, is hereby clothed
with the authority and powers of a sheriff or a state correctional officer with
respect to the custody of the prisoner in this Commonwealth.
		Any duly authorized officer of the United States, the District of Columbia, or
any other state, while engaged in transporting through Virginia to any other
state any prisoner of the United States, the District of Columbia, or any other
state, lawfully taken or surrendered into his custody either within or without
Virginia in any manner, shall while transporting such prisoner into or through
Virginia, be clothed with all of the authority and powers of a sheriff or of a
state correctional officer with respect to the custody of the prisoner in this
Commonwealth.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 53-303; 1982, c. 636.