§ 53.1-18 Department to have custody of property; right to sue to protect property.
§ 53.1-19 Establishment of correctional institutions.
§ 53.1-20 Commitment of convicted persons to custody of Director.
§ 53.1-20.1 Compensation of local jails for cost of incarceration.
§ 53.1-21 Transfer of prisoners into and between state and local correctional facilities.
§ 53.1-22 Misdemeanant suspected of having contagious disease.
§ 53.1-23 Fingerprints, photographs and description.
§ 53.1-23.1 Repealed.
§ 53.1-23.2 Department to give notice of the receipt of certain prisoners.
§ 53.1-24 Record of convictions and register to be kept.
§ 53.1-25 Director to prescribe rules; rules to be available to prisoners.
§ 53.1-25.1 Rules of state correctional facilities.
§ 53.1-26 Confiscation of prohibited articles.
§ 53.1-27 Establishment of stores in state correctional facilities.
§ 53.1-28 Authority to fix discharge date; improper release; warrant, arrest and hearing.
§ 53.1-29 Authority for correctional officers and other employees to carry weapons.
§ 53.1-30 Who may enter interior of state correctional facilities; searches of those entering.
§ 53.1-31 Sale or lease of gas, oil, or minerals.
§ 53.1-31.1 Transportation of prisoners.
§ 53.1-31.2 Notification of child support due by a prisoner.
§ 53.1-31.3 Notification of incarcerated individuals ineligible for public assistance.
§ 53.1-31.4 Department of Corrections-issued identification.
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Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 53.1 > Chapter 2 > Article 1 - General Provisions.

  • Adult: means a person 18 years of age or more. See Virginia Code 1-203
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • City: means an independent incorporated community which became a city as provided by law before noon on July 1, 1971, or which has within defined boundaries a population of 5,000 or more and which has become a city as provided by law. See Virginia Code 1-208
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Correctional officer: means a duly sworn employee of the Department of Corrections whose normal duties relate to maintaining immediate control, supervision and custody of prisoners confined in any state correctional facility. See Virginia Code 53.1-1
  • Director: means the Director of the Department of Corrections. See Virginia Code 53.1-1
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Local correctional facility: means any jail, jail farm or other place used for the detention or incarceration of adult offenders, excluding a lock-up, which is owned, maintained, or operated by any political subdivision or combination of political subdivisions of the Commonwealth. See Virginia Code 53.1-1
  • Month: means a calendar month and "year" means a calendar year. See Virginia Code 1-223
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Person: includes any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, government, political subdivision, or any other legal or commercial entity and any successor, representative, agent, agency, or instrumentality thereof. See Virginia Code 1-230
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • real estate: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights and appurtenances thereto and interests therein, other than a chattel interest. See Virginia Code 1-219
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-245
  • State correctional facility: means any correctional center or correctional field unit used for the incarceration of adult offenders established and operated by the Department of Corrections, or operated under contract pursuant to § Virginia Code 53.1-1
  • sworn: means "affirm" or "affirmed. See Virginia Code 1-250
  • Town: means any existing town or an incorporated community within one or more counties which became a town before noon, July 1, 1971, as provided by law or which has within defined boundaries a population of 1,000 or more and which has become a town as provided by law. See Virginia Code 1-254
  • United States: includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-255