19.2-58 - Disposition of property seized. - Virginia Statutes

§ 19.2-58. Disposition of property seized.

If any such warrant be executed by the seizure of property, or of any otherof the things aforesaid, the same shall be safely kept by the direction ofsuch judge or court, to be used as evidence, and thereafter be disposed of asprovided by law; provided, however, that any such property seized under suchwarrant which is not used in evidence and any property which is stolen orembezzled property shall be restored to its owner, and the things mentionedin § 19.2-53 may be burnt or otherwise destroyed, under such direction, assoon as there is no further need for its use as evidence unless it isotherwise expressly provided by law.

(Code 1950, § 19.1-87; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.)