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2015 SESSION
15100758DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 18.2-359 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 18.2-359. Venue for criminal sexual assault or where any person transported for criminal sexual assault, attempted criminal sexual assault, or purposes of unlawful sexual intercourse, crimes against nature, and indecent liberties with children; venue for such crimes when coupled with a violent felony.
A. Any person transporting or attempting to transport through
or across the Commonwealth any person for the purposes of unlawful sexual
intercourse, anal intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, or anilingus or
prostitution, or for the purpose of committing any crime specified in §
18.2-361 or, 18.2-370, or 18.2-370.1, or for the
purposes of committing or attempting to commit criminal sexual assault under
Article 7 (§ 18.2-61 et seq.) of Chapter 4, may be presented, indicted, tried,
and convicted in any county or city in which any part of such transportation
occurred.
B. Venue for the trial of any person charged with committing
or attempting to commit any crime specified in § 18.2-361 or, 18.2-370, or 18.2-370.1, or sexual assault under Article 7 (§ 18.2-61 et seq.) of
Chapter 4 may be had in the county or city in which such crime is alleged to
have occurred or, with the concurrence of the attorney for the Commonwealth in
the county or city in which the crime is alleged to have occurred, in any
county or city through which the victim was transported by the defendant prior
to the commission of such offense.
C. Venue for the trial of any person charged with committing or attempting to commit criminal sexual assault under Article 7 (§ 18.2-61 et seq.) of Chapter 4 against a person under 18 years of age may be had in the county or city in which such crime is alleged to have occurred or, when the county or city where the offense is alleged to have occurred cannot be determined, then in the county or city where the person under 18 years of age resided at the time of the offense.
D. Venue for the trial of any person charged with committing
or attempting to commit (i) any crime specified in § 18.2-361 or, 18.2-370, or 18.2-370.1, or criminal sexual assault under Article 7 (§ 18.2-61 et
seq.) of Chapter 4 and (ii) any violent felony as defined in § 17.1-805 or any
act of violence as defined in § 19.2-297.1 arising out of the same incident,
occurrence, or transaction may be had in the county or city in which any such
crime is alleged to have occurred or, with the concurrence of the attorney for
the Commonwealth in the county or city in which the crime is alleged to have
occurred, in any county or city through which the victim was transported by the
defendant in the commission of such offense.