CHAPTER 182

An Act to amend and reenact § 18-17, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to appointment of conservators of the peace so as to provide
for appointment of conservators of the peace at banks and certain State
institutions.

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Approved February 29, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 18-17, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-
enacted as follows:

§ 18-17. The circuit, corporation or hustings court, or the judge there-
of in vacation, of any county, city or town in which is located any watering
place, natural cavern, airport, manufacturing plant, automobile race track,
fair, football stadium, historical site, bank or such other like place where
there are great gatherings of people, or * the University of Virginia, or any
incorporated college, or any penal or correctional institution under control
of the Department of Welfare and Institutions, or * 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, manufacturing plant, auto-
mobile race track, fair, football stadium, historical site, bank or such other
like place where there are great gatherings of people, or of the board of
visitors of such university or the constituted authority of such college, or the
superintendent of such penal or correctional institution or upon application,
formal or informal, of anyone alleging that the place involved is essential
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to, and should be specially policed in the interest of, national and State
defense, appoint one or more citizens of the Commonwealth conservator or
conservators of the peace, who shall hold office for such period of time as
the court or judge thereof in vacation may fix, not to exceed one year from
the time of appointment, and whose jurisdiction shall extend over the
grounds attached to such watering place, natural cavern, airport, manu-
facturing plant, automobile race track, fair, football stadium, historical
site, bank, university, college, penal or correctional institution or other
place, within such limits as shall be prescribed in the order appointing any
such conservator, provided, however, that the jurisdiction of any conserva-
tor appointed for a college located within a city may also extend to the
streets and sidewalks adjacent to the college grounds; and provided further
that any conservator appointed for any penal or correctional institution
shall be an employee of such institution and termination of such employment
shall automatically revoke such appointment. Any such conservator shall,
within the limits for which appointed, have the power and jurisdiction of
any other conservator of the peace.