{"data":{"id":"us-va/va.-code-19.2-340.1","jurisdiction":"us-va","citation":"Va. Code § 19.2-340.1","heading":"Disposition of fines in criminal cases","body":"When a law-enforcement officer of (i) the Department of State Police or (ii) any other division of the state government makes an arrest or issues a summons for a violation of a provision of the Code of Virginia, the person arrested or summoned shall be charged with a violation of that Code provision and shall not be charged with a substantially similar local ordinance. All fines collected upon conviction of any person so arrested or summoned shall be credited to the Literary Fund.2012, c. 749.","path":["Title 19.2. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","Chapter 21. RECOVERY OF FINES AND PENALTIES","Article 1. PROCEEDINGS TO RECOVER"],"source_url":"https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/19.2-340.1/","current_through":"9/4/2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:14:39Z","sha256":"85c2c8e3f775a5ceb297edbd94a0923cd1f7603da7c8c4899da1f664626c2d89","source_id":"us-va","stale":true,"prev":"us-va/va.-code-19.2-340","next":"us-va/va.-code-19.2-341"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}