19.2-182.10 - Release of person whose conditional release was revoked.
§ 19.2-182.10. Release of person whose conditional release was revoked.
If an acquittee is returned to the custody of the Commissioner for inpatienttreatment pursuant to revocation proceedings, and his condition improves tothe degree that, within 60 days of resumption of custody following thehearing, the acquittee, in the opinion of hospital staff treating theacquittee and the supervising community services board or behavioral healthauthority, is an appropriate candidate for conditional release, he may be,with the approval of the court, conditionally released as if revocation hadnot taken place. If treatment is required for longer than 60 days, theacquittee shall be returned to the custody of the Commissioner for a periodof hospitalization and treatment which is governed by the provisions of thischapter applicable to committed acquittees.
(1991, c. 427; 1993, c. 295; 2006, cc. 199, 225; 2007, cc. 485, 565.)