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CHAPTER 443 An Act to amend and reenact § 15.2-1718 of the Code of Virginia, relating to missing child reports. [H 717] Approved April 12, 2004

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15.2-1718 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 15.2-1718. Receipt of missing child reports.

No police or sheriff's department shall establish or maintain any policy which requires the observance of any waiting period before accepting a missing child report as defined in § 52-32. Upon receipt of a missing child report by any police or sheriff's department, the department shall immediately, but in all cases within two hours of receiving the report, enter identifying and descriptive data about the child into the Virginia Criminal Information Network and National Crime Information Center Computer Systems, forward the report to the Missing Children Information Clearinghouse within the Department of State Police, notify all other law-enforcement agencies in the area, and initiate an investigation of the case.