19.2-97 - Confinement in jail when necessary. - Virginia Statutes

§ 19.2-97. Confinement in jail when necessary.

The officer or persons executing the Governor's warrant of arrest, or theagent of the demanding state to whom the prisoner may have been delivered,may, when necessary, confine the prisoner in the jail of any county or citythrough which he may pass; and the keeper of such jail shall receive andsafely keep the prisoner until the officer or person having charge of him isready to proceed on his route, such officer or person being chargeable withthe expense of keeping.

(Code 1950, § 19.1-61; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.)