CHAPTER 724

An Act to amend and reenact § 19.1-19.8 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to offenses required to be reported to the Central Criminal Records
Exchange.

[S 405]

Approved April 5, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 19.1-19.3 be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 19.1-19.8. Reports to be made by local law-enforcement officers,
conservators of the peace and clerks of court.—(a) On and after January
one, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight, every State official or agency hav-
ing the power * to arrest, the sheriffs of counties, the police officials of cities
and towns, and any other local law-enforcement officer or conservator of
the peace having the power to arrest for a felony shall make a report to
the Central Criminal Records Exchange, on forms provided by it, of any
arrest on a charge of treason or of any felony or of any of the following
offenses punishable as misdemeanors: Bribery; petit larceny; obtaining
money or property under false pretenses; indecent exposure; vagrancy ;
or any violation of the laws relating to the manufacture, possession or
sale of narcotics, prostitution, the keeping of bawdy places, child abuse,
or obscenity. Such reports shall contain such information as shall be
required by the Exchange and shall be accompanied by fingerprints of the
individual arrested and information as to whether a photograph of the
individual 1s available.

(b) On and after January one, nineteen hundred sixty-* eight,
the clerk of each court of record and court not of record shall make a
report to the Central Criminal Records Exchange of any dismissal, nolle
prosequi, acquittal, or conviction of, or failure of a grand jury to return
a true bill as to, any person charged with an offense listed in subsection
(a) of this section. No such report of conviction shall be made by the
clerk of a court not of record unless the period allowed for an appeal has
elapsed and no appeal has been perfected. In the event that the records
in the office of any clerk show that any conviction has been nullified
in any manner, he shall also make a report of that fact, and each clerk of a
court of record, upon receipt of certification thereof from the Supreme
Court of Appeals, shall report to the Exchange, on forms provided by it,
any reversal or other amendment to a prior sentence reported to the
Exchange. For each such report made by a clerk of a court of record,
he shall be allowed a fee of fifty cents, to be paid from the appropriation

for criminal charges.
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