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1997 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 30-4, 30-6 and 30-7 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 30-4. Civil proceedings for or against members, clerks or clerks' assistants, or the Lieutenant Governor during session.
Any action, suit or other civil proceeding, either in favor of or against a
member of the General Assembly, or the clerks thereof, or their
the clerks' full-time assistants, the sergeant-at-arms of
the Senate or House, or the Lieutenant Governor, may be commenced, but
shall not, unless by their consent, be prosecuted to final judgment or decree
during the session of the General Assembly. But their persons shall not be
taken into custody or imprisoned under any civil process In
addition, no such person shall be compelled in any civil proceeding to appear
or to answer or respond, in person or in writing, nor shall any such person be
taken into custody or imprisoned during the session of the General
Assembly, or during the fifteen days next before the beginning or after the
ending of any session.
§ 30-6. Privilege of members, clerks and clerks' assistants, and Lieutenant Governor from arrest.
During the session of the General Assembly, and for five days before and after
the session, a member members of the General Assembly,
the clerks thereof and their the clerks' full-time
assistants, and the sergeants-at-arms of the Senate and House
shall be privileged from being taken into custody or imprisoned under any
process except as provided in § 30-7; nor shall such persons for such
periods of time be subject to process as a witness in any case, civil or
criminal. The provisions of this section shall be applicable to the Lieutenant
Governor during his attendance at sessions of the General Assembly and while
going to and from such sessions.
§ 30-7. Members, clerks, assistants, etc., subject to arrest for criminal offenses.
No Any member of the General Assembly,
and no any clerk thereof or his assistants,
nor the Lieutenant Governor shall be privileged from arrest or
imprisonment for treason, felony or breach of the peace or the
sergeant-at-arms of the Senate or the House who is alleged to have committed a
criminal offense as defined in § 18.2-8, shall be subject at any time to
be charged, arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned for such offense.
2. That the provisions of this act are declarative of existing law.