Chap. 372,—-An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Chapter 36]
of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1940, approved March 30, 1940, relating
to police departments and police forces in certain counties. [H B 481]

Approved April 1, 1942

I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions one, two, three and four of Chapter three hundred and sixty-one
of the Acts of the General Assembly of nineteen hundred and forty,
approved March thirtieth, nineteen hundred and forty, be amended and
re-enacted, as follows: 7

Section 1. The board of supervisors or other governing body of any
county in this Commonwealth having a population in excess of one
thousand persons per square mile, according to the last preceding United
States census, adjoining any county having a population greater than
five hundred per square mile, according to the last preceding United
States Census, and of any county having within its boundaries a United
States Marine Base and adjoining a county within which is a United
States Army Encampment, shall have the power to establish a police
force to be known as the county police department of such county, pro-
vided, however, that the establishment of such department shall first be
ordered by the adoption of a resolution to that effect by the recorded vote
of the board of supervisors or other governing body of any such county.

Section 2. The board of supervisors or other governing body of
any such county establishing such a police department shall have power
to make provision for financing said department in the county levy, to-
gether with the right to lay an additional levy, not to exceed five cents
per annum on each one hundred dollars of valuation, for the retirement
of the members of the said police department, and shall have further
power to do all things necessary to establish, organize and administer
said department and to carry out the provisions of this act.

Section 3. In any county establishing such police department there
shall be appointed a chief of police, which appointment shall be made by
the judge of the circuit court, in term or vacation, said chief to be ap-
pointed upon the request and nomination of the board of supervisors
or other governing body of such county, or county manager of such
county if there be such, subject, however, to the approval of the judge
of the circuit court, which appointment shall be for such length of time
as the said judge shall designate, unless sooner terminated by said judge,
and said chief shall have supervision of said police department.

Section 4. Appointment of police officers in such police department
shall be made by the judge of the circuit court, either in term or in vaca-
tion, upon the request and recommendation of the chief of said depart-
ment, or county manager of such county if there be such, which appoint-
ments shall be for such length of time as the said judge shall designate,
unless sooner terminated by said judge.