6VAC40-30-20: Authority for approval

Section 19.2-188.1 of the Code of Virginia provides that the Department of Forensic Science shall approve field tests for use by law-enforcement officers to enable them to testify to the results obtained in any preliminary hearing regarding whether any substance, the identify of which is at issue in such hearing, is a controlled substance or imitation controlled substance, as defined in § 18.2-247 of the Code of Virginia, or "marijuana" as defined in §§ 4.1-600 and 18.2-247 of the Code of Virginia.