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2003 SESSION


CHAPTER 116
An Act to amend and reenact § 19.2-249 of the Code of Virginia, relating to offenses committed on boundary of localities.
[H 1496]
Approved March 16, 2003

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 19.2-249 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 19.2-249. Offenses committed on boundary of two counties, two cities, or county and city, etc.; where prosecuted.

An offense committed on the boundary of two counties, or on the boundary of two cities, or on the boundary of a county and city, or within 300 yards thereof, may be alleged to have been committed, and may be prosecuted and punished, in either county, in either city, or the county or city, and any sheriff, deputy sheriff, or other police officer shall have jurisdiction to make arrests and preserve the peace for a like distance on either side of the boundary line between such counties, such cities, or such county and city.