CHAPTER 513

An Act to amend and reenact § 19.1-6 of the Code of Virgima, relating to
rewards for arrest of persons charged with certain offenses.

[H 496]
Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

a That § 19.1-6 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 19.1-6. The Governor may offer a reward for apprehending and
securing any person convicted of an offense or charged therewith, who
shall have escaped from lawful custody or confinement, or for apprehending
and securing any person charged with an offense, who, there is reason to
fear, cannot be arrested in the common course of proceeding. But no
such reward shall be paid to any sheriff, sergeant, or other officer who
arrests such person by virtue of any process in his hands to be executed.
The Governor may also offer a reward for the detection and conviction of
the person guilty of an offense when such offense has been committed but
the person guilty thereof is unknown.

Any county may provide by ordinance that a reward be offered to any
person giving information leading to the arrest and conviction of any other
person. for violating any of the provisions of Title 29 of the Code of

irginia.