CHAPTER 22

An Act to amend and reenact § 52-21, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to procedure after certain arrests without warrant
by police.

[H 62]

Approved February 12, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 52-21, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 52-21. Except in the case of a violation of a provision * of Title
46.1, in which case the officer making the arrest shall proceed as provided
in § 46.1-178, the officer making the arrest shall forthwith bring the
person so arrested before an officer authorized to issue criminal warrants
in the county or city where the arrest is made. The officer before whom
such person is brought shall proceed to examine the officer making the
arrest. If the officer before whom such person is brought has reasonable
grounds upon which to believe that a criminal offense has been committed,
and that the person arrested has committed such offense, he shall issue
such a warrant as might have been issued prior to the arrest of such
person under the provisions of § 19.1-91. If such a warrant is issued the
case shall thereafter be disposed of in like manner as though the warrant
had been issued prior to the arrest. If such a warrant be not issued the
person so arrested shall be released.