19.2-102 - In what cases bail allowed; conditions of bond. - Virginia Statutes

§ 19.2-102. In what cases bail allowed; conditions of bond.

Unless the offense with which the prisoner is charged is shown to be anoffense punishable by death or life imprisonment under the laws of the statein which it was committed, any judge, magistrate or other person authorizedby law to admit persons to bail in this Commonwealth may admit the personarrested to bail by bond, with sufficient sureties, and in such sum as hedeems proper, conditioned upon his appearance before a judge at a timespecified in such bond and upon his surrender for arrest upon the warrant ofthe Governor of this Commonwealth.

(Code 1950, § 19.1-66; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.)