CHAPTER 79

An Act to amend and reenact § 19-82 of the Code of 1950 in relation to
the disposition of property seized under search warrants, so as to
restore certain language.

[H 191]

Approved February 19, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
ae That § 19-82 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted as

ollows:

§ 19-32. Disposition of property seized.—If any such warrant be
executed by the seizure of property, or of any other of the things afore-
said, the same shall be safely kept by the direction of such trial justice or
court, to be used as evidence, and thereafter be disposed of as provided
by law; provided, however, that any such property seized under such war-
rant which is stolen or embezzled property shall be restored to its owner,
and the things mentioned in § 19-29 may be burnt or otherwise destroyed,
under such direction, as soon as there is no further need for its use as
evidence unless it is otherwise expressly provided by law.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.