Chap. 62.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3l-a of an act entitled an
act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke and to repeal the
existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof and
all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they
relate to the city of Roanoke, approved March 22, 1924, page 720 of Acts
of 1924, so as to authorize certain officers of the city of Roanoke to admit
persons to bail. [S B 60]

Approved February 28, 1928.

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-one-a of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter
tor the city of Roanoke and to repeal the existing charter of said city
and the several acts amendatory thereof and all other acts or parts
of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the city of
Roanoke, approved March twenty-second nineteen hundred and
twenty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3l-a. Bail—In order that there shall be at all times
some officer at the police station empowered to grant bail in mis-
demeanor cases, the chief of police or the ranking officer on duty and
present at the police station shall, at all times on the absence of the
civil and police justice or his assistant have the same power to
admit to bail persons arrested on charges of misdemeanor and
brought to the police station as a justice of the peace. The sergeant
of the city of Roanoke and any and all of his regularly employed
deputies shall at all times have the same power to admit to bail
persons arrested and brought to the police station as bail commis-
sioners for the counties have in respect to their counties except as
to persons charged with murder, manslaughter, malicious shooting,
burglary, robbery from the person by violence, arson, rape or at-
tempted rape. It shall be the duty of officers empowered by
this section so to do to admit to bail in proper cases all persons
applying therefor and offering adequate security. No bail commis-
sioner shall be appointed by any of the courts for the city of Roa-
noke. a general law to the contrary notwithstanding. No officer
empowered hereunder shall receive any fee for his service in ad-
mitting persons to bail.