Chap. 87.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 404 of the Acts of 1922,
entitled an act to provide for a special police force in certain counties, pre-
scribing the manner of their appointment and removal, providing for their

compensation and defining their powers and duties, approved March 24,
1922, [Hi B 102]

Approved March 3, 1928

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chap-
ter tour hundred and four of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

section 1. Sheriffs may appoint special police; their pay, et
cetera; how allowed and paid.—In every county of the State hav-
ing a population of thirty thousand or more and adjoining one
or more cities having a population of one hundred thousand or more
in the aggregate, the circuit court of the county or the judge thereof in
vacation may, if deemed advisable, appoint a special police force for
so much of said county as is not embraced within an incorporated
town located in such county, to consist of one or more suitable and
discreet persons, who shall serve as such for such length of time as
the said circuit court of the county or the judge thereof in vacation
may designate, or until others are appointed in their place. Such person
Or persons so appointed shall be conservators of the peace in their
respective counties. The circuit court of the county or the judge thereof
in vacation may, if deemed proper, allow compensation to the said
police, which, together with any expense incurred in the execution of
their duties, shall be paid out of the county levy.

Section 2. May remove any of them and appoint others.—The cir-
cuit court of the county or the judge thereof in vacation, 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.

Section 3. Removal from county creates vacancy; how filled.—
The removal from the county in which he was appointed, shall vacate
the office of such person so appointed, or he may resign or decline
appointment; and thereupon the vacancy shall be filled by the circuit
court of the county or the judge thereof in vacation.

Section 4. 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 court or county
clerk, with condition faithfully to discharge their official duties.

Section 5. 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
circuit court of the county or the judge thereof in vacation, attested by
the clerk of such court, shall in all cases be received as evidence of their
official character.

Section 6. 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, or whom they have cause
to suspect, have violated, or intend to violate any law of the State;
and they may execute any search warrant issued by a justice of
their county under sections forty-eight hundred and nineteen and
forty-eight hundred and twenty of the 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.