CHAPTER 330

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
15.1-187.1, authorizing certain cities to offer and pay rewards in

felony cases.
[fH 1031]
Approved April 2, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
15.1-137.1 as follows:

§ 15.1-137.1. When any felony has been committed or there has
been any attempt to commit a felony in any city having a population of
not less than fifty thousand nor more than sixty-five thousand, the gov-
erning body of such city or its duly authorized agent may offer and pay
a reward, not to exceed one thousand dollars, for the arrest and final
conviction of the person or persons who committed or attempted to com-
mit such felony.

Such sum shall be paid out of the general fund of such city. All
offers of rewards in such cases heretofore made subsequent to the first
day of January, nineteen hundred sixty-two, shall constitute legal and
binding obligations upon such city.

An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.