CHAPTER 502

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 28-209 and 28-217 of the Code
of 1950, relating to procedure on arrest for certain offenses,
and to compromise of certain violations.

[ H 152 ]

Approved April 7, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 28-209 and 28-217 of the Code of 1950 be amended
and reenacted as follows:

§ 28-209. Procedure after arrest and seizure.—Any per-
son so arrested may be carried before a trial justice for trial,
or may be committed to jail pending trial or admitted to bail
or released on recognizance as provided by general law; or the
arresting officer may issue a summons requiring such person to
appear for trial at a time and place specified therein before a
court having jurisdiction to try the offense; such time shall not,
however, be less than five days from the date of arrest unless
such person request an earlier hearing. Any person failing to
appear as directed in such summons shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, regardless of the disposition of, and in addition to,
the charge upon which he was originally arrested and upon such
fatlure to appear a warrant for his arrest may be issued.

* Any vessel, boat, craft, motor vehicle conveyance, or
other thing * seized under the provisions of § 28-208, when not
liable to forfeiture to the Commonwealth in proper proceed-
ings, may be held by the inspector or other official who made
the seizure, or in whose district the same was seized, until the
accused has paid the penalty of his offense if upon trial he is
round guilty, * or has upon trial been acquitted, as the case
may be.

§ 28-217. Compromise of violations of fish or shellfish
laws prohibited.— * * * No inspector or other officer apprehend-
ing any person for any violation of the fish or shellfish laws shall
have power to compromise or settle with any such offender, or
release him from any legal proceedings resulting from any such
violation.