CHAPTER 490

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-229 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to indemnifying bond to officer in certain cases. 'S 651

Approved April 4, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
aon That § 8-229 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as

ollows:

§ 8-229. Indemnifying bond to officer.—If any officer levies or is
required to levy a fieri facias, an attachment, or a warrant of distress
on property, and a doubt shall arise whether such property is liable to
such levy, he may give the plaintiff, his agent or attorney at law, notice
that an indemnifying bond is required in the case; bond may thereupon
be given by any person, with good security, payable to the officer in a pen-
alty equal to * the value of the property in the case of a fieri facias or a
warrant of distress on property and equal to double the value of the prop-
erty in case of an attachment with condition to indemnify him against all
damage which he may sustain in consequence of the seizure or sale
of such property and to pay to any claimant of such property all dam-
age which he may sustain in consequence of such seizure or sale, and also to
warrant and defend to any purchaser of the property such estate or interest
therein as is sold. If such indemnifying bond be not given within a reason-
able time after such notice, the officer may refuse to levy on such property,
or may restore it to the person from whose possession it was taken, as the
case may be. If it be given, the officer shall proceed to levy if he has not
already done so, or if the levy has been released.