Chap. 426.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2179 of the Code of Virginia.

Approved December 12; 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-one hundred and seventy-nine of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2179. Enforcement of forfeitures to be by information; who to file
it; what to set forth; how verified.—If any property be seized as forfeited
for a violation of any of the provisions of chapter ninety-five, chapter
ninety-six, or chapter nincty-seven, and a different mode of enforcing
the forfeiture is not therein prescribed, in order to enforce the same the
Commonwealth’s attorney for the county wherein or for any county ad-
jacent to the waters in which the forfeiture was incurred, shall file in
the clerk’s office of the circuit court of his county an information in the
name of the Commonwealth against said property by name or general
designation. The information shall allege the scizure, and set forth in
general terms the causes or grounds of forfeiture. It shall also pray that
the property be condemned as forfeited to the Commonwealth and be
sold, and the proceeds of sale disposed of according to law, and that all
persons concerned in interest be cited to appear and show cause why the
said property should not be condemned and sold to enforce the forfeiture.
If the proceeding be instituted by an informer, he shall sign and swear
to the information. The Commonwealth’s attorney shall also sign it,
but if the law on which the proceeding is based contains no provision as
to informers, the signature of the Commonwealth’s attorney shall alone
be sufficient.

2. This act shall be in force on and after February first, nineteen hun-
dred and four.