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Virginia is the one state where the compliance layer is read from the primary sources, cited rule by rule, and enforced by the product rather than described by it. This is what a Core state means, and it is the standard the second one will be held to.
Five live bonds, free. No card, no sales call.
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The 5-day notice of default, the 150 days to produce the defendant ending at 4:00 PM court-local rather than at midnight, and the 24-month remission window, extended to 48 where the defendant is incarcerated in another state or country. Every number in this sentence is read from the rules pack the product counts with.
Va. Code § 19.2-143
Virginia bands the bail bond premium at not less than 10 percent and not more than 15 percent of the bond amount. The quote slider clamps to it. Out-of-band is not a warning you can click through, it is a number the interface will not produce.
Va. Code § 9.1-185.8
Virginia requires collateral to be received in a fiduciary capacity, kept separate from your own funds, and receipted in writing: description, terms of redemption, terms of forfeiture, and the depositor’s name and contact information. A return request starts a 15-day clock. We record what was taken, from whom and what it is worth, on the bond itself. We do not produce the receipt and we do not count that clock, so both stay yours.
6VAC20-250-280
Property bondsmen owe DCJS a list of outstanding bonds for the preceding month by the 5th of each month. It is assembled from data you already entered, it is due on a fixed date, and missing it is a licensing problem rather than a paperwork problem.
6VAC20-250-230(F)
Virginia requires a minimum of three years of records from the date of termination of the liability. So there is no hard delete for case data: soft delete only, with a retention floor computed from that date, and an inspection export that assembles a date range into one indexed bundle.
6VAC20-250-220
OCIS 2.0 covers criminal and traffic in every general district court, adult criminal in J&DR, and select circuit courts where the clerk participates. Each active case is also subscribed to CASS, Virginia’s free case-alert feed, which pushes a notice the moment something changes. Both read the same court record, so agreement between them is not proof either is right, which is why every synced date carries its source and a confidence score and becomes a human confirmation below threshold.
eapps.courts.state.va.us/ocis · CASS
State law
DCJS licenses bail bondsmen in Virginia. A surety bondsman also holds a property and casualty licence from the State Corporation Commission’s Bureau of Insurance, and a property bondsman pledges assets instead of writing on an insurer’s power.
That is who you deal with, not a summary of what they require. What we have read of this state’s rules is above, with the authority printed beside each one and built into the software rather than paraphrased. Where our own reading could not ground something in the text, it is named as an open question instead. Read the source and ask them.
Source read 2026-08-01
Six rules in the Virginia pack are flagged as needing verification by counsel rather than quietly filled in, and they are not published as fact anywhere on this site: whether the premium is non-refundable, whether a capacity block is legally required rather than prudent, and the in-service training hours among them. The rules table carries a citation and a verification status per rule, so your lawyer reviews a table instead of a codebase.
State law
Three clocks run after a failure to appear in Virginia, and one of them ends at a wall-clock time rather than at midnight. Here is each one, what starts it, what stops it, and what it costs to miss it.
Read it · 6 minute readRenewal is a 24-month cycle with a 30-day lead time. The part that catches people is not the application. It is the reporting calendar running underneath it all year.
Read it · 5 minute readIn order, with the money marked at each step: what a failure to appear on a Virginia bond sets in motion, and where the agency can still change the outcome.
Read it · 5 minute readGeneral information for bail bond professionals, not legal advice. It creates no attorney-client relationship and does not replace your own lawyer. Laws change. Check your state’s own sources before relying on any of it.