Chap. 12.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as amended, of Chapter 361
of the Acts of 1940, relating to police departments and police forces of certain
counties; and to declare the existence of an emergency. [H B 16}

Approved October 5, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
one, as amended, of chapter three hundred and sixty-one of the Acts of
the General Assembly of nineteen hundred and forty, approved March
eben nineteen hundred and forty, be amended and re-enacted, as

ollows:

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 a square mile, or of any county adjoining a county hav-
ing a population greater than five hundred a square mile, both according
to the last preceding United States census, or 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, provided, however, that the establishment of such depart-
ment 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.

2. Anemergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.