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§ 19.2-350. When sheriff not to receive fines

No sheriff or other law-enforcement officer shall receive any fine, penalty or costs imposed by a court not of record, except under process duly issued. Code 1950, § 19.1-342; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.

§ 19.2-351. How fines disposed of; informer

Although a law may allow an informer or person prosecuting to have part of a fine or penalty, the whole thereof shall go to the Commonwealth, unless the name of such informer or prosecutor be endorsed on, or written at the foot of, the presentment at the time it is made, or of the indictment […]

§ 19.2-352. Officers to pay fines to clerks; default; forfeiture, etc.

Every sheriff or other officer receiving money under a writ of fieri facias or capias pro fine shall pay the same to the clerk of the court from which such process issued, on or before the return day of such process; and if such sheriff or other officer fail to pay the money, or fail […]

§ 19.2-353. Certain fines paid into Literary Fund

The proceeds of all fines and penalties collected for offenses committed against the Commonwealth, and directed by Article VIII, Section 8 of the Constitution of Virginia to be set apart as a part of a perpetual and permanent literary fund, shall be paid and collected only in lawful money of the United States, and shall […]

§ 19.2-353.1. Fieri facias and proceedings thereon

Any writ of fieri facias issued under this chapter and the proceedings on the same shall conform to the writ of fieri facias and proceedings thereon under Article 19 (§ 8.01-196 et seq.) of Chapter 3 of Title 8.01. Code 1950, § 19.1-347; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.

§ 19.2-353.5. Interest on fines and costs

A. For purposes of this section, “incarcerated” or “incarceration” means confinement in a local or regional correctional facility, juvenile correctional facility, state correctional facility, residential detention center, or facility operated pursuant to the Corrections Private Management Act (§ 53.1-261 et seq.). B. No interest shall accrue on any fine or costs imposed in a criminal […]