CHAPTER 572

An Act to amend and reenact § 19.1-86 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to whom search warrants directed; what it shall command and what
at must contain.

[H 108]

Approved April 4, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
oa That § 19.1-86 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as

ollows:

§ 19.1-86. To whom search warrant directed; what it shall command.
—Every search warrant shall be directed to the sheriff, sergeant, or any
policeman * of the county or corporation in which the place to be searched
is and shall command him forthwith to search the house, place, vehicle,
baggage or thing designated, either in day or night, seize the property
mentioned in such affidavit, and bring the same and the person in whose
possession the same are found before a judge or court having jurisdiction
of the offense in relation to which such search was made. * Any warrant *
directed “to any policeman of * a county, city or town” * shall be executed
by a policeman or other officer into whose hands it shall come or be de-
ivered.

Every search warrant shall contain the date and time it was issued.
The failure of any such search warrant to contain the date and time it was
issued shall not render the warrant void, provided that the date and time
of issuing of said warrant be established by competent evidence.