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1998 SESSION
982570388Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 18.2-47 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 18.2-47. Abduction and kidnapping defined; punishment.
A. Any person, who, by force, intimidation or deception, and without legal
justification or excuse, seizes, takes, transports, detains or secretes the
person of another, with the intent to deprive such other person of his personal
liberty or to withhold or conceal him from any person, authority or institution
lawfully entitled to his charge, shall be deemed guilty of "abduction"; but the
provisions of this section shall not apply to any law-enforcement officer in
the performance of his duty. The terms "abduction" and "kidnapping" shall be
synonymous in this Code. Abduction for which no punishment is otherwise
prescribed shall be punished as a Class 5 4 felony.
B. If such offense is committed by the parent of the person abducted and punishable as contempt of court in any proceeding then pending, shall be a Class 1 misdemeanor in addition to being punishable as contempt of court. Provided further, however, that such offense, if committed by the parent of the person abducted and punishable as contempt of court in any proceeding then pending and the person abducted is removed from the Commonwealth by the abducting parent, shall be a Class 6 felony in addition to being punishable as contempt of court.
2. That the provisions of this act may result in a net increase in periods of imprisonment in state correctional facilities. Pursuant to § 30-19.1:4, the estimated amount of the necessary appropriation is $0.