Chap. 338.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4 of Chapter 386 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Virginia of 1942, approved April 2, 1942, relating
to the payment of salaries of sheriffs of counties, and with certain exceptions,
sergeants of cities, and to their full time deputies, and for the payment of ex-
penses incurred by such officers; to abolish the fee system as a method of com-
pensating such officers, etc., so as to provide for mileage to police officers in
certain counties when the police officer acts in place of the sheriff. [S 25

Approved March 30, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section four of chapter three hundred and eighty-six of
the Acts of the General Assembly of nineteen hundred and forty-two,
approved April second, nineteen hundred and forty-two, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 4. Expenses of sheriffs and sergeants and their full time
deputies.—(a) Each sheriff and each sergeant, and each full-time
deputy of either, shall keep a record of all expenses incurred by him
including expenses for traveling, telephone, telegraph, clerical assistance,
office facilities and supplies, bond premiums, cook hire, fuel used in
preparing food for jail prisoners, and any other expense incident to his
office. Each such full-time deputy shall file a monthly report with his
principal, showing in detail the expenses incurred by him.

(b) Each sheriff and each sergeant shall submit a statement of
all expenses incurred by him, and by each of his full-time deputies, to
the Compensation Board monthly on forms provided by said Board.
Each officer shall at the same time transmit a copy of said statement
to the board of supervisors of the county or the council of the city for
which he is elected or appointed. It shall be the duty of the Compen-
sation Board to examine said statement of expenses incurred, and in
the event it is of opinion that the annual expense allowance which it has
made to any such officer is greater or less than necessary to defray the
proper expenses of such officer, then the annual expense allowance
theretofore made to said officer shall be reduced or increased to conform
to the findings of the Compensation Board. From any such reduction
or increase in such allowances the board of supervisors, the city council,
or the officer affected, shall, however, have the same right of appeal as is
provided in the case of other salaried officers of the counties and cities
by chapter three hundred and sixty-four of the Acts of the General
Assembly of nineteen hundred and thirty-four.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of the foregoing subsection.
the governing body of any county or city may, with the approval of the
Compensation Board, enter into such agreement with the sheriff or
sergeant of such county or city with respect to the traveling expenses.
including the use of privately owned vehicles, of such sheriff or sergeant
and his deputies as the said governing body may deem proper. Provided,
however, that with the consent of the Compensation Board, in counties
having a regular police force authorized by law and in which counties
the jail of another county or city has been adopted as the jail of any
such county, the police officers who transport any persons charged with
violation of a State law under order of the trial justice of any such
county or the judge of the circuit court of any such county, in place of the
sheriff, to the jail of such county so adopted as the jail of the first county,
shall receive the same mileage as the sheriff of such county would re-
ceive had he so transported such persons. Any such police officer so
transporting any such person shall make claim for mileage on the same
forms the sheriff uses for such claims, and in the same manner. When
any such mileage is collected by any such police officer he shall pay the
same into the county treasury, and the payment of such mileage shall
be made in the manner as is provided for the payment of mileage to
sheriffs. .