Chap. 221.—An ACT to amend and reenact Sections 4804 and 4805, as amended,
of the Code of Virginia, dealing with appointment of conservators of the
¢ and special policemen in certain counties, by permitting such appointment

in cities and towns. {s

Approved March 13, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That sections forty-eight hundred four and forty-eight
hundred five of the Code of Virginia, as amended, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

Section 4804. Appointment of conservators of the peace at
any watering place, natural cavern, airport, university, college,
manufacturing plant or other place deemed essential to National or
State defense; jurisdiction—The circuit, corporation or hustings
court, or the judge thereof in vacation, of any county, city or town
in which any watering place, natural cavern, airport, or manufac-
turing plant, or in which the University of Virginia, or any incor-
porated college, or wherein any place, private or otherwise, which,
in the discretion of the court, is deemed essential to National and
State defense, may, upon the application of the proprietor of such
watering place, natural cavern, airport, or manufacturing plant,
or of the board of visitors of such university or other constituted
authority of such college, or upon application, formal or informal,
of anyone alleging that the place involved is essential to, and
should be specially policed in the interest of, National and State
defense, appoint one or more citizens of the Commonwealth con-
servator or conservators of the peace, who shall hold office for one
year from the time of appointment, and whose jurisdiction shall
extend over the grounds attached to such watering place, natural
cavern, airport, manufacturing plant, university, college, or other
place, within such limits as shall be prescribed in the order appoint-
ing any such conservator, provided, however, that the juris-
diction of any conservator appointed for a college located
within a city may also extend to the streets and sidewalks adjacent
to said college grounds. Any such conservator shall, within the
limits for which appointed, have the power and jurisdiction of any
conservator of the peace.

Provided, however, that any such conservator whose jurisdic-
tion is limited to the grounds attached to an airport need not be
a citizen of the Commonwealth if the proprietors of such airport
shall, before any such conservator shall enter upon the duties of
the office enter into bond with approved surety before the county
clerk of the county wherein such airport is located in the penalty
of one thousand dollars for each conservator so appointed, with
condition for the faithful discharge of his official duties.

Section 4805. Appointment of policemen; bond required.—
Any court or judge mentioned in the preceding section may also
appoint, for the places mentioned in that section, one or more
citizens as policeman or policemen with the powers and duties of
constables, except that they shall not have authority to execute
civil process. Before any such policeman as is mentioned in this
section shall enter upon the duties of his office, he shall enter into
bond with approved security before the county clerk of the county
for which he is appointed in the penalty of one thousand dollars,
with condition for the faithful discharge of his official duties, pro-
vided, however, that any conservator or conservators or policeman
or policemen appointed under the provisions of section forty-eight
hundred four or forty-eight hundred five of this act shall pay any
and all fees or mileage allowances which they may receive for the
performance of such duties as they may perform under sections
forty-eight hundred four or forty-eight hundred five of this act
into the treasury of the county or city in which they are appointed.