Chap. 188.—An ACT to authorize and empower peace officers of other State of
the United States to follow in close pursuit and arrest in Virginia persons
fleeing into Virginia, and to provide for the disposition of such persons after
such arrest. [S B 193]

Approved March 13, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:

Section 1. Any member of a duly organized State, county or
municipal peace unit of another State of the United States who enters
this State in close pursuit, and continues within this State in such close
pursuit, of a person in order to arrest him on the ground that he has
committed a felony in such other State, shall have the same authority
to arrest and hold in custody such person, as members of a duly organ-
ized State, county or municipal peace unit of this State have, to arrest
and hold in custody a person on the ground that he has committed a
felony in this State, provided that the state from which such person
has fled extend similar privileges to any member of a duly organized
state, county or municipal peace unit of this Commonwealth.

Section 2. If an arrest is made in this State by an officer of another
State in accordance with the provisions of section one of this act, he
shall without unnecessary delay take the person arrested before a trial
justice or the judge of the circuit court of the county, or a police jus-
tice, or judge of the corporation or hustings court of the city, in which
the arrest was made, who shall conduct a hearing for the purpose of
determining the lawfulness of the arrest. If the trial justice, police
justice, or judge, determines that the arrest was lawful he shall com-
mit the person arrested to await for a reasonable time the issuance of
an extradition warrant by the Governar of this State. If the trial
justice, police justice, or judge, determines that the arrest was unlaw-
ful he shall discharge the person arrested.

Section 3. Section one of this act shall not be construed so as to
make unlawful any arrest in this State which would otherwise be
lawful.

Section 4. For the purpose of this act the word “State” shall in-
clude the District of Columbia.

Section 5. Upon the passage and approval by the Governor of this
act it shall be the duty of the keeper of the rolls to certify a copy of
this act to the executive department of each of the States of the United
States.

Section 6. If any part of this act is for any reason declared void,
it is declared to be the intent of this act that such invalidity shall not
affect the validity of the remaining portions of this act.

Section 7. This act may be cited as the Uniform Act on Close
Pursuit.