18.2-339 - Enjoining offenses relating to gambling. - Virginia Statutes

§ 18.2-339. Enjoining offenses relating to gambling.

Whenever any person shall be engaged in committing, or in permitting to becommitted, or shall be about to commit, or permit, any act prohibited by anyone or more of the sections in this article, the attorney for theCommonwealth of the county or city in which such act is being, or is about tobe, committed or permitted, or the Attorney General of the Commonwealth, mayinstitute and maintain a suit in equity in the appropriate court, in the nameof the Commonwealth, upon the relation of such attorney for the Commonwealth,or the Attorney General, to enjoin and restrain such person from committing,or permitting, such prohibited act or acts. The procedure in any such suitshall be similar to the procedure in other suits for injunctions, except thatno bond shall be required upon the granting of either a temporary orpermanent injunction therein.

(Code 1950, § 18.1-343; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.)