CHAPTER 520

An Act to amend and reenact § 18-17 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to conservators of the peace at certain places. 86}
H 386

Approved April 2, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
aan That § 18-17 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:
§ 18-17. The circuit, corporation or hustings court, or the judge
thereof in vacation, of any county, city or town in which any watering
place, natural cavern, airport, * manufacturing plant, automobile race
track, fair, football stadium, or such other like place where there are great
gatherings of people, or in which the University of Virginia, or any
incorporated college, or wherein any place, private or otherwise, which,
in the discretion of the court, is deemed essential to national and State
defense, may, upon the application of the proprietor of such watering
place, natural cavern, airport, * manufacturing plant, automobile race
track, fair, football stadium, or such other like place where there are
great gatherings of people, or of the board of visitors of such university
or the constituted authority of such college, or upon application, formal or
informal, of anyone alleging that the place involved is essential to, and
should be specially policed in the interest of, national and State defense,
appoint one or more citizens of the Commonwealth conservator or con-
servators of the peace, who shall hold office for such period of time as the
court or judge thereof in vacation may fix, not to exceed one year from
the time of appointment, and whose jurisdiction shall extend over the
grounds attached to such watering place, natural cavern, airport, manu-
facturing plant, automobile race track, fair, football stadium, university,
college, or other place, within such limits as shall be prescribed in the order
appointing any such conservator, provided, however, that the jurisdiction
of any conservator appointed for a college located within a city may also
extend to the streets and sidewalks adjacent to the college grounds. Any
such conservator shall, within the limits for which appointed, have the
power and jurisdiction of any other conservator of the peace.