CHAPTER 189

An Act to amend and reenact § 1 of Chapter 36 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1950, approved February 21, 1950, which provided for a special
police force in certain counties.

(H 193]

Approved March 1, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 1 of Chapter 36 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, approved
February 21, 1950, be amended and reenacted as follows: ;

§ 1. In any county which has a population of more than thirty-five
thousand inhabitants and which adjoins two cities having a population of
not less than fifty thousand each, the sheriff of the county shall appoint a
special police force for so much of the county as is not embraced within an
incorporated town located therein. Such police force shall consist of one
or more suitable and discreet persons who shall serve as such for such
length of time as the sheriff may designate or until others are appointed
in their place, but not exceeding one year under any one appointment.
Such police force shall include all investigative or law enforcement officers
employed by the county in any office or department of the county govern-
ment. The sheriff may, subject to the approval of the governing body of
the county, allow compensation to the members of such police force
not less than two hundred * dollars a month which, together with any
expenses incurred in the execution of their duties, including the cost of
such radio equipped police cars as the sheriff deems are necessary, shall
be paid out of the county levy.

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