CHAPTER 177

An Act to direct the State Department of Education for Virginia to
reimburse certain public employees for moneys expended for certain
purposes; and to appropriate funds.

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Approved March 30, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. Any Jaw enforcement officer of the State, or of any county, city
or town thereof who attends any college which offers a degree or associate
degree in Law Enforcement, may, upon application and acceptance in such
college in an accredited course toward such degree, apply to the Depart-
ment of Education for Virginia for reimbursement of the tuition paid for
such course. Upon such application, which shall be accompanied by evi-
dence of the satisfactory completion of such course, the Council shall pay
to such officer fifty per centum of the tuition cost of such course, not to
exceed forty dollars for each such course. Upon receiving satisfactory
evidence that such officer has continued to serve as a law enforcement
officer for one year in Virginia following completion of such course, the
Council shall pay to such officer the remaining fifty per centum of the cost
of such tuition, not to exceed an additional amount of forty dollars for
each such course,
2. There is hereby appropriated to the Department of Education for

Irginia the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, to carry out the provisions of this act.