                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

JURISDICTION OF OFFENSES COMMITTED BY PRISONERS (§ 53.1-99)

Whenever any farm is situated beyond the limits of the city establishing and
maintaining it, the courts of such city shall have concurrent criminal
jurisdiction with the courts of the county or city in which such farm, or any
part thereof, is situated of all offenses committed within the boundaries of the
farm by persons confined thereto.
		The courts of such city shall have concurrent criminal jurisdiction with the
courts of the county or city in which any of these offenses are committed: (i)
escape, (ii) larceny of or willful damage or destruction of property owned by
the city establishing and maintaining the farm, and (iii) offenses against the
person or property of any employee of such city, if such offenses are committed
en route between the farm and any other point by any person confined at the farm
who is being transported thereto for confinement or being transported therefrom
following confinement.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 53-198.1; 1960, c. 286; 1982, c. 636.