Code of Virginia - Title 19.2 Criminal Procedure - Chapter 22 Enforcement Of Forfeitures

19.2-369 Information to be filed by attorney for Commonwealth
If any statute provides for the forfeiture of any property or money, or if any property or money be seized as forfeited for a violation ...

19.2-370 Contents of information
The information shall allege the seizure, and set forth in general terms the causes or grounds of forfeiture. It shall also pray that the property ...

19.2-371 Signing and swearing to information
If the proceeding be instituted by an informer, he shall sign and swear to the information. The attorney for the Commonwealth also shall sign it, ...

19.2-372 Issuance of warrant
Upon the filing of the information, the clerk shall forthwith issue a warrant directed to the sheriff or other law-enforcement officer of the county or ...

19.2-373 Execution and return of warrant
The officer serving the warrant shall take the property into his possession and forthwith return the warrant and report to the clerk in writing thereon ...

19.2-374 Notice issued by clerk
As soon as the warrant has been executed and returned, the clerk shall issue a notice reciting briefly the filing of the information, the object ...

19.2-375 Notice to Commissioner of Department of Motor Vehicles; duties of Commissioner
If the property so seized be a motor vehicle required by the motor vehicle laws of Virginia to be registered, the attorney for the Commonwealth ...

19.2-376 Owners, purchasers and lienors of vehicles to be made parties defendant; notice of hearin...
The owner of and all persons in any manner then indebted or liable for the purchase price of the property, if such property be a ...

19.2-377 Bond by owner or lienor to secure possession
If the owner or lienor of the seized property shall desire to obtain possession thereof before the hearing on the information filed against the same, ...

19.2-378 Sale of property liable to deterioration, etc
If the property seized under the warrant be perishable or liable to deterioration, decay, or injury by being detained in custody pending the proceedings the ...

19.2-379 Defense to information; rights of owners or lienors without knowledge of illegal use
Any person concerned in interest may appear and make defense to the information, which may be done by answer on oath. The fact that the ...

19.2-380 Trial of issues of fact
When the case is ready for trial, such issues of fact as are made by the pleadings, or as the court may direct, shall be ...

19.2-381 Judgment of condemnation and sale of property; when judgment given on bond of owner or lienor; dest...
If the forfeiture be established, the judgment shall be that the property be condemned as forfeited to the Commonwealth and further that the same be ...

19.2-382 Sale to be for cash; title of purchaser
Any sale ordered in the cause shall be made for cash, after due advertisement, and shall vest in the purchaser a clear and absolute title ...

19.2-383 Disposition of proceeds of sale
The proceeds of sale, and whatever may be realized on any bond given under § 19.2-377, and any money forfeited, shall be disposed of by ...

19.2-384 Payment of expenses and costs
Expenses and costs incurred in the proceedings shall be paid as the court, in its discretion, shall determine; except that no costs shall be adjudged ...

19.2-385 Writ of error and supersedeas
For the purpose of review on a writ of error or supersedeas, a final judgment or order in the cause shall be deemed a final ...

19.2-386 How forfeitures of property not otherwise provided for are enforced
Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, whenever any property is forfeited to the Commonwealth by reason of the violation of any law, the court ...