19.2-163.3 - Duties of public defenders. - Virginia Statutes

§ 19.2-163.3. Duties of public defenders.

Public defenders shall carry out the following duties in accordance with theguidance, policies, and authorizations of the Indigent Defense Commission:

(a) To assist the executive director of the Commission in securing officespace, to employ a staff, to fix salaries and to do such other thingsnecessary to carry out the duties imposed upon them with the approval of theCommission.

(b) To represent or supervise assistants in representing within theirrespective jurisdictions as set out in § 19.2-163.04 indigent persons chargedwith a crime or offense when such persons are entitled to be represented bylaw by court-appointed counsel in a court of record or a court not of record.

(c) To represent or supervise assistants in representing indigent persons whoare entitled to be represented by court-appointed counsel in an appeal oftheir conviction to the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court of Virginia.

(d) To submit such reports as required by the Commission.

(Code 1950, § 19.1-32.4; 1972, c. 800; 1975, c. 495; 1978, c. 698; 1979, c.194; 1990, c. 734; 1992, c. 80; 2007, c. 680.)