CHAPTER 264

An Act to amend and reenact § 18-17, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to appointment, terms and jurisdiction of conservators of the
peace for designated places.

[S 109]

Approved March 12, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 18-17, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 18-17. The circuit, corporation or hustings court, or the judge
thereof in vacation, of any county, city or town in which is located any
watering place, natural cavern, airport, manufacturing plant, automobile
race track, fair, football stadium, historical site, bank, or such other like
place where there are great gatherings of people, or the University of
Virginia, or any incorporated college, or any penal or correctional institu-
tion under control of the Department of Welfare and Institutions, or any
hospital or colony which is under the management, supervision and control
of the State Hospital Board, or 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, historical site, bank, 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 the superintendent
of such penal or correctional institution, or the superintendent of such
hospital or colony 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 conservators 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, manufacturing plant, automobile
race track, fair, football stadium, historical site, bank, university, college,
penal or correctional institution, hospital or colony or other place, within
such limits as shall be prescribed in the order appointing any such con-
servator, provided, however, that the jurisdiction of any conservator ap-
pointed for a college located within a city may also extend to the streets
and sidewalks adjacent to the college grounds; and provided further that
any conservator appointed for any penal or correctional institution shall
be an employee of such institution and termination of such employment
shall automatically revoke such appointment; and provided further that
any conservator appointed for any such hospital or colony shall be em-
ployed by such hospital or colony only as an institutional policeman, fire-
man, safety officer, security officer or caretaker and termination of such
employment shall automatically revoke such appointment. Any such con-
servator shall, within the limits for which appointed, have the power and
jurisdiction of any other conservator of the peace.