CHAPTER 272

An Act to amend and reenact § 19-120 as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to discharge of surety in recognizance. CH 521]

Approved March 11, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 19-120 as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 19-120. A surety in a recognizance may at any time arrest his
principal and surrender him to the court before which the recognizance
was taken or before which such principal’s appearance is required, or to
the sheriff, sergeant, or jailer of the county or city wherein the court before
which such principal’s appearance is required is located; in addition to the
above authority, upon the application of the surety, the court, or the clerk
thereof, before which the recognizance was taken, or before which such
principal’s appearance is required, shall issue a capias for the arrest of such
principal, and such capias may be executed by such surety, or his author-
ized agent, or by any sheriff, sergeant or police officer, and the person
executing such capias shall deliver such principal and such capias to the
sheriff or jailer of the county or the sergeant or jailer of the city in which
the appearance of such principal is required, and thereupon the said surety
shall be discharged from liability for any act of the principal subsequent
thereto. Such sheriff, sergeant or jailer shall thereafter deliver such capias
to the clerk of such court, with his endorsement thereon acknowledging
delivery of such principal to his custody.