15.2-1620 - Process, etc., sent to officer by mail.
§ 15.2-1620. Process, etc., sent to officer by mail.
Any sheriff or other officer may transmit by mail to the proper officer, withhis return thereon, any order, warrant or process which came to his handsfrom beyond his locality and proof that any order, warrant or process was putinto the post office, duly addressed to any officer, and that the postagethereon was paid, shall be prima facie evidence of the receipt thereof by theofficer to whom the same is addressed, by due course of mail, and this primafacie evidence may be furnished by the receipt taken, at the time the order,warrant or process is put into the post office, from the postmaster, or hisdeputy, and the certificate of a magistrate of the acknowledgment of thereceipt before him. However, an officer may protect himself from a forfeitureor fine upon such proof, by making oath that he did not himself receive theorder, warrant or process, so addressed to him, and that he verily believesit was not received by any of his deputies.
(Code 1950, § 15-518; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-83; 1997, c. 587.)