Code of Virginia - Title 19.2 Criminal Procedure - Section 19.2-386.5 Release of seized property

§ 19.2-386.5. Release of seized property

At any time prior to the filing of an information, the attorney for the Commonwealth in the county or city in which the property has been seized pursuant to § 19.2-386.15 or § 19.2-386.22 may, in his discretion, upon the payment of costs incident to the custody of the seized property, return the seized property to an owner or lien holder, without requiring that the owner or lien holder post bond as provided in § 19.2-386.6, if he believes the property is properly exempt from forfeiture pursuant to § 19.2-386.8.

(1989, c. 690; 2002, cc. 588, 623; 2004, c. 995.)

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