Chap. 165.—An ACT to provide for a special police force in the county of Roa-
noke, prescribing the manner of their appointment and removal, providin
for their compensation, and defining their powers and duties. [H B 254

Approved March 14, ‘1924,

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, as follows:

1. Sheriff of Roanoke county may appoint special police; their
pay; how allowed and paid.—The sheriff of Roanoke county, of the
State of Virginia, shall have the power to, and he is hereby authorized
to appoint a special police force for so much of the said county as is
not embraced within any incorporated town located in said county,
to consist of one or more suitable and discreet persons, who shall serve
as such for such length of time as the said sheriff may designate, or
until others are appointed in their place.

2. May remove any of them and appoint others.—The sheriff
may, at any time, remove any or all of such police, and appoint others,
and may fill any vacancy that may occur in said police force, or may
add to the number theretofore appointed.

3. Removal from county creates vacancy; how filled.—The re-
moval from the county in which he was appointed, shall vacate the
office of such person so appointed, or he may resign or decline appoint-
ment; and thereupon the vacancy shall be filled by the sheriff.

4. Sheriff, Commonwealth’s attorney, and board of supervisors to
agree; judge of circuit court to decide in case of disagreement.—All
appointments of police made by the sheriff, both original and to fill
vacancies, their removal, and the fixing of their compensation shall
be subject to the approval of the attorney for the Commonwealth and
board of supervisors of Roanoke county, and in the event the sheriff,
the attorney for the Commonwealth and board of supervisors cannot
agree, the judge of the circuit court of such county shall decide.

5. Bond of police.—Before entering upon the duties of their office
the persons so appointed shall give bond in the penalty of five hundred
dollars with approved security before the county clerk with condition
faithfully to discharge their official duties.

6. Their authority, et cetera, confined to limits of county; what,
evidence of their office.—The jurisdiction and authority of said police
shall extend no further than the limits of the county in which they are
appointed, and a copy of the order of appointment made by the sheriff,
attested by the clerk of such court, shall in all cases be received as
evidence of their official character, and the said officer or officers shall
wear a badge or uniform to be prescribed by the sheriff.

7. Their duties and powers.—It shall be the duty of said police to
apprehend and carry before a justice, to be dealt with according to
law, all persons whom they may be directed by the warrant of a justice
to apprehend; and they may execute any search warrant issued by a
justice of their county under sections forty-eight hundred and nine-
teen and forty-eight hundred and twenty, Code of Virginia. If such
property as is mentioned in said sections be found, the police shall
proceed as an officer acting under chapter one hundred and ninety-
one of the Code of Virginia, and they shall have the same authority as a
justice to require any person to aid in making an arrest; all such police
shall have the same authority as that of deputy sheriffs to make arrests
for violations of the criminal laws of this State. In addition to the
powers hereby conferred on said special police, they shall be clothed
with the same powers and authority as are now, or may hereafter be
conferred on police in cities. But said special police shall have no
authority to execute civil process.

8. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its pas-

sage.