Code of Virginia - Title 15.2 Counties, Cities And Towns - Chapter 17 Police And Public Order

15.2-1700 Preservation of peace and good order
Any locality may provide for the protection of its inhabitants and property and for the preservation of peace and good order therein. (Code 1950, § ...

15.2-1701 Organization of police forces
Any locality may, by ordinance, provide for the organization of its authorized police forces. Such forces shall include a chief of police, and such officers ...

15.2-1702 Referendum required prior to establishment of county police force
A. A county shall not establish a police force unless (i) such action is first approved by the voters of the county in accordance with ...

15.2-1703 Referendum to abolish county police force
The police force in any county which established the force subsequent to July 1, 1983, may be abolished and its responsibilities assumed by the sheriff's ...

15.2-1704 Powers and duties of police force
A. The police force of a locality is hereby invested with all the power and authority which formerly belonged to the office of constable at ...

15.2-1705 Minimum qualifications; waiver
A. The chief of police and all police officers of any locality, all deputy sheriffs and jail officers in this Commonwealth, and all law-enforcement officers ...

15.2-1706 Certification through training required for all law-enforcement officers; waiver of requirement...
A. All law-enforcement officers as defined in § 9.1-101 and all jail officers as defined in § 53.1-1 must be certified through the successful completion ...

15.2-1707 Decertification of law-enforcement officers
Upon written notification from the sheriff, chief of police or agency administrator that any certified law-enforcement or jail officer has (i) been convicted of or ...

15.2-1708 Notice of decertification
A. Service of notice. The Board shall, within ten days of decertification, serve notice upon an affected officer, in person or by certified mail, and ...

15.2-1709 Employer immunity from liability; disclosure of information regarding former deputy sheriffs and la...
Any sheriff or chief of police, the director or chief executive of any agency or department employing deputy sheriffs or law-enforcement officers as defined § ...

15.2-1710 Fees and other compensation
A police officer shall not receive any fee or other compensation out of the state treasury or the treasury of a locality for any service ...

15.2-1711 Providing legal fees and expenses for law-enforcement officers; repayment to locality of two-third...
If any law-enforcement officer is investigated, arrested or indicted or otherwise prosecuted on any criminal charge arising out of any act committed in the discharge ...

15.2-1712 Employment of off-duty officers
Notwithstanding the provisions of §§ 2.2-3100 through 2.2-3127, any locality may adopt an ordinance which permits law-enforcement officers and deputy sheriffs in such locality to ...

15.2-1713 Localities authorized to offer and pay rewards in felony and misdemeanor cases
When any felony or misdemeanor has been committed, or there has been any attempt to commit a felony in any locality, the governing body of ...

15.2-1713.1 Local "Crime Stoppers" programs; confidentiality
A. As used in this section, a "Crime Stoppers," "crime solvers," "crime line," or other similarly named organization is defined as a private, nonprofit Virginia ...

15.2-1714 Establishing police lines, perimeters, or barricades
Whenever fires, accidents, wrecks, explosions, crimes, riots or other emergency situations where life, limb or property may be endangered may cause persons to collect on ...

15.2-1715 Authority to declare Intensified Drug Enforcement Jurisdictions; expenditure of funds
Whenever, in the judgment of the Governor or his designee, a locality or multi-jurisdictional area is confronted with a drug trafficking problem of such a ...

15.2-1716 Reimbursement of expenses incurred in responding to DUI incidents and other traffic incident...
A. Any locality may provide by ordinance that a person convicted of violating any of the following provisions shall be liable for restitution at the ...

15.2-1716.1 Reimbursement of expenses incurred in responding to terrorism hoax incident
Any locality may provide by ordinance that any person who is convicted of a violation of subsection B or C of § 18.2-46.6, when his ...

15.2-1717 Preventing interference with pupils at schools
Localities may adopt any reasonable ordinance necessary to prevent any improper interference with or annoyance of the pupils attending or boarding at any schools situated ...

15.2-1717.1 Designation of police to enforce trespass violations
Any locality may by ordinance establish a procedure whereby the owner, lessee, custodian, or person lawfully in charge as those terms are used in § ...

15.2-1718 Receipt of missing child reports
No police or sheriff's department shall establish or maintain any policy which requires the observance of any waiting period before accepting a missing child report ...

15.2-1718.1 Receipt of missing senior adult reports
A. No police or sheriff's department shall establish or maintain any policy which requires the observance of any waiting period before accepting a missing senior ...

15.2-1719 Disposal of unclaimed property in possession of sheriff or police
Any locality may provide by ordinance for (i) the public sale in accordance with the provisions of this section or (ii) the retention for use ...

15.2-1720 Localities authorized to license bicycles, electric power-assisted bicycles, mopeds, and electric p...
Any locality may, by ordinance, (i) provide for the public sale or donation to a charitable organization of any bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, ...

15.2-1721 Disposal of unclaimed firearms or other weapons in possession of sheriff or police
Any locality may destroy unclaimed firearms and other weapons which have been in the possession of law-enforcement agencies for a period of more than sixty ...

15.2-1722 Certain records to be kept by sheriffs and chiefs of police
A. It shall be the duty of the sheriff or chief of police of every locality to insure, in addition to other records required by ...

15.2-1723 Validation of certain police forces
Any police force in existence on July 1, 1980, whose existence is authorized or was authorized by any provision of law, general or special, that ...

15.2-1724 Police and other officers may be sent beyond territorial limits
Whenever the necessity arises (i) for the enforcement of laws designed to control or prohibit the use or sale of controlled drugs as defined in ...

15.2-1725 Extending police power of localities over lands lying beyond boundaries thereof; jurisdiction of co...
Any locality owning and operating an airport, public hospital, sanitarium, nursing home, public water supply or watershed, public park, recreational area, sewage disposal plant or ...

15.2-1726 Agreements for consolidation of police departments or for cooperation in furnishing police service...
Any locality may, in its discretion, enter into a reciprocal agreement with any other locality, any agency of the federal government exercising police powers, police ...

15.2-1727 Reciprocal agreements with localities outside the Commonwealth
A locality or a state-supported or private institution of higher learning may, in its discretion, enter into reciprocal agreements for such periods as it deems ...

15.2-1728 Mutual aid agreements between police departments and federal authorities
In any case where exclusive jurisdiction over any property or territory has been granted by the Commonwealth to the United States government, or to a ...

15.2-1729 Agreements for enforcement of state and county laws by federal officers on federal propert...
A. The governing body of any county may enter into an agreement with the United States government or a department or agency thereof, under the ...

15.2-1730 Calling upon law-enforcement officers of counties, cities or towns for assistance
In case of an emergency declared by the chief law-enforcement officer of a locality, such officer may call upon the chief law-enforcement officer of towns ...

15.2-1730.1 Authority and immunity of sheriffs and deputies
In counties where no police department has been established and the sheriff is the chief law-enforcement officer, the sheriff may enter into agreements with any ...

15.2-1731 Establishment, etc., authorized; powers, authority and immunities generally
A. Localities, for the further preservation of the public peace, safety and good order of the community, may establish, equip and maintain auxiliary police forces, ...

15.2-1732 Appropriations for equipment and maintenance
Localities may make such appropriations as may be necessary to arm, equip, uniform and maintain such auxiliary police force. (1968, c. 157, § 15.1-159.3; 1997, ...

15.2-1733 Appointment of auxiliary police officers; revocation of appointment; uniform; organization; rules a...
The governing body of the locality may appoint or provide for the appointment as auxiliary police officers as many persons of good character as it ...

15.2-1734 Calling auxiliary police officers into service; police officers performing service to wear uniform...
A. A locality may call into service or provide for calling into service such auxiliary police officers as may be deemed necessary (i) in time ...

15.2-1735 Acting beyond limits of jurisdiction of locality
The members of any such auxiliary police force shall not be required to act beyond the limits of the jurisdiction of any such locality except ...

15.2-1736 Mutual aid agreements among governing bodies of localities
The governing bodies of localities, and state-supported institutions of higher learning having a police force appointed pursuant to § 23-233, as well as sheriffs, and ...

15.2-1737 Circuit courts may appoint special police officers
A. The circuit court for any locality may, upon the application of, and a showing of a necessity for the security of property or the ...

15.2-1738 Application for appointment as special police officer; qualifications
Before any person is appointed as a police officer under § 15.2-1737, the sheriff or chief of police shall make written application for such appointment ...

15.2-1739 Compensation of special police officer
A locality, if deemed proper, except where the police officer is otherwise regularly employed and his duties as police officer are merely incidental to such ...

15.2-1740 Certain special police officers not employees of Commonwealth or locality
No police officer appointed under § 15.2-1737 who is otherwise regularly employed and whose duties as police officer are merely incidental to such private employment ...

15.2-1741 Removal of special police officers; filling vacancies
The court may, at any time, remove any or all of such police, and appoint others, and may fill any vacancy that may occur in ...

15.2-1742 Removal from locality creates vacancy
The removal from the locality in which he was appointed shall vacate the office of the person appointed, or the person may resign or decline ...

15.2-1743 Bond of special police officers
Before entering upon the duties of his office, any person initially appointed on or after July 1, 1996, shall give bond in the penalty of ...

15.2-1744 Jurisdiction and authority of special police officers; evidence of their office
The jurisdiction and authority of special police shall extend no further than the limits of the locality in which they are appointed, and a copy ...

15.2-1745 Duties and powers of special police officers
Special police shall apprehend and carry before a judge or magistrate to be dealt with according to law, all persons whom they may be directed ...

15.2-1746 Duty of district judge; may bind to good behavior, etc
In all cases arising under § 15.2-1745, the district judge before whom the person so arrested is brought shall examine the case and dispose of ...

15.2-1747 Creation of academies
A. The governing bodies of two or more localities or other political subdivisions or other public bodies hereinafter collectively referred to as "governmental units," may ...

15.2-1748 Powers of the academies
A. Upon organization of an academy, it shall be a public body corporate and politic, the purposes of which shall be to establish and conduct ...

15.2-1749 Revenue bonds
A. Each academy is hereby authorized, after a resolution adopted by a majority of its board of directors, to issue, at one time or from ...

15.2-1750 Governmental units authorized to appropriate or lend funds
The governmental units which are parties of the agreement creating the academy or which arrange to have personnel trained at the academy are authorized to ...

15.2-1751 Exemption from taxation
Any academy created under the provisions of this article shall not be required to pay taxes or assessments upon any project or upon any property ...

15.2-1752 Governmental immunity
Any academy created pursuant to this article shall be deemed to be a governmental entity exercising essential governmental powers, and any such academy and its ...

15.2-1753 Liability of board members
No member of the board of directors of an academy shall be personally liable for any indebtedness, obligation or other liability of an academy, barring ...