                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COURTS TO ORDER JAILS ERECTED AND REPAIRED (§ 53.1-71)

When it shall appear to the circuit court of any county or city that there is no
jail therein or that the jail of such county or city is insecure, out of repair
or otherwise inadequate, it shall be the duty of such court to award a rule in
the name of the Commonwealth against the governing body of the county or city to
show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue commanding the governing body
to erect a jail for the county or city, or to cause the existing jail of such
county or city to be made secure, put in good repair, or rendered otherwise
adequate, as the case may be.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 53-129; 1982, c. 636.