If any person, being required by a conservator of the peace on view of a breach of the peace or other offense to bring before him the offender, refuse or neglect to obey the conservator of the peace, he shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor; and if the conservator of the peace declare himself or be known to be such to the person so refusing or neglecting, ignorance of his office shall not be pleaded as an excuse.
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-464
Failure to obey order of conservator of the peace
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Caron Nazario v. Joe Gutierrez (2024)
Most recently applied in Caron Nazario v. Joe Gutierrez (May 2024)
Code 1950, § 18.1-302; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.
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