§ 18.2-339 — Enjoining offenses relating to gambling

Virginia § 18.2-339

• Jurisdiction: Virginia
• Title 18.2: CRIMES AND OFFENSES GENERALLY
• Ch. 8: CRIMES INVOLVING MORALS AND DECENCY
• Art. 1: GAMBLING

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Whenever any person shall be engaged in committing, or in permitting to be committed, or shall be about to commit, or permit, any act prohibited by any one or more of the sections in this article, the attorney for the Commonwealth of the county or city in which such act is being, or is about to be, committed or permitted, or the Attorney General of the Commonwealth, may institute and maintain a suit in equity in the appropriate court, in the name of 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 suit shall be similar to the procedure in other suits for injunctions, except that no bond shall be required upon the granting of either a temporary or permanent injunction therein.

Legislative History

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