Chap. 390.—An ACT to provide a police commission for Norfolk county, to appoint
and have supervision and control of the police force in said county; to pre-
scribe the powers, duties and compensation of such commission and of such
police force, and of the members of each; and to repeal chapter 404 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of 1922, approved March 24, 1922, and all
amendments thereof. | ee | [H B 368]

Approved March 29, 1932

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia as follows:

1. There is hereby created in and for Norfolk county, a police
commission, consisting of three members. The members of the com-
mission shall be the chairman of the board of supervisors, the sheriff
and the Commonwealth’s attorney of Norfolk county.

2. The members of the police commission provided for by this act,
shall meet within ten days after their appointments are made, and shall
organize by selecting one of their number chairman and another secre-
tary. Two members of the said commission shall constitute a quorum.

_ The said members of the police commission shall receive no com-
pensation for their services, but shall be paid out of the general fund
of the county the actual expenses incurred by them in the performance
of their official duties, provided in no fiscal year shall more than one
hundred and fifty dollars be allowed for the total expenses of all such
members.

3. The said police commission shall on or before July first, nine-
teen hundred and thirty-two appoint ten police officers for the county,
which police officers shall constitute the Norfolk county police force.
Each of the said police officers. shall be a conservator of the peace
within the said county and the towns thereof, and shall be vested with
the same powers and duties as are now, or which may hereafter be
vested in special police of counties and in police officers of cities.

4, The terms of service of all special policemen appointed for the
county of Norfolk before this act takes effect shall expire at midnight
on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, and the
terms of service of the police officers appointed under the provisions
of this act shall begin at the same time.

5. The commission shall have authority to designate one of the
police officers, so appointed, chief of police, and to vest in him the
supervision and control over the other police officers, subject to such
rules and regulations as the commission may determine. Except as
herein provided, the police force of the county shall at no time exceed
ten in number. The commission may, however, appoint one such
officer, in addition to said number, who in addition to his duties as a
police officer, shall act as assistant jailor for the county; his salary
shall not be in excess of fifty dollars per month. In the event of
emergency, the commission shall also have authority to call upon and
appoint so many citizens of the county as it shall deem necessary to
serve as special police officers and members of the Norfolk county
police force during such emergency and without compensation; every
such person so appointed, shall, for the term of his appointment, be
vested with the powers and duties vested in other members of the said
police force.

The commission shall have authority, subject to the provisions of
the preceding paragraph, to fix the salaries to be paid all officers ap-
pointed by it hereunder, but the salary of no such officer shall be less
than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars per month, except that
the salary of the chief of police, if a chief be named, shall not exceed
one hundred and seventy-five dollars per month. The commission shall
prescribe the type of uniform to be worn by such officers while on
duty. Each such officer shall provide, at his own expense, the uniform
prescribed by the commission, and shall wear said uniform at all times
when engaged in the performance of his official duties and when at-
tending court.

The commission shall have authority, after a public or private hear-
ing, to discharge any such police officer appointed by it under the
provisions of this act, and to fill any vacancies which may, for any
reason, occur.

6. Be it further enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
chapter four hundred and four of the Acts of the General Assembly
of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, which chapter is an act entitled an
act to provide for a special police force in certain counties, prescribing
the manner of their appointment and removal, providing for the com-
pensation and defining their powers and duties, approved March twenty-
fourth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and all amendments thereof,
be and the same are hereby, repealed, such repeal to become effective
on July first, nineteen hundred and thirty-two. ,