Chap. 480.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4797 and 4800 of the Code
of Virginia, which sections are contained in chapter 189 of the said Code, on
preventing the commission of crimes. [H B 949)

Approved March 25, 1924.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
forty-seven hundred and ninety-seven and forty-eight hundred of the
Code of Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 4797. Circuit courts may appoint special policemen; appli-
cation; their pay, et cetera; how allowed and paid.—The circuit court
of any county, or the judge thereof in vacation, may, if deemed advisable,
appoint special policemen for so much of the said county as is not em-
braced within an incorporated town located in the county, who shall be
suitable and discreet persons, and who shall serve as such for such length
of time as.the court or judge may designate, but not exceeding one year
under any one appointment. Before any person shall be appointed a
policeman hereunder, he shall be a qualified voter and actual resident
of the county for which he is appointed, and shall make written applica-
tion for such appointment to the circuit court, or the judge thereof in
vacation, which application shall state the applicant’s full name, age,
place of residence, occupation, and by whom regularly employed. Such
person or persons so appointed shall be conservators of the peace in
their respective counties. Such court or judge may, if deemed proper,
except where the policeman is otherwise regularly employed and his
duties as policeman are merely incidental to such private employment,
allow compensation to the said policemen, which, together with any
expense incurred in the execution of their duties, shall be paid out of
the county levy. No policeman appointed under this section who is
otherwise regularly employed and whose duties as policeman are merely
incidental to such private employment shall be deemed to be an employee
of the State or county within the meaning of the Virginia workmen’s
compensation act.

The terms of service of all policemen appointed under section forty-
seven hundred and ninety-seven of the Code of Virginia of nineteen
hundred and nineteen before this amendatory act takes effect shall ex-
pire on January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-five.

Section 4800. Bond of policemen.—Before entering upon the du-
ties of their office the persons so appointed shall give bond in the penalty
of one thousand dollars, with approved security before the county clerk,
with condition faithfully to discharge their official duties.