CHAPTER 232

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
15-552.1, providing when certain officers having powers of arrest may
act beyond the territorial limits of their counties, cities and n a80)

Approved March 10, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
15-552.1, as follows:

§ 15-552.1. The policemen, and any other officer having powers of
arrest in any county, city or town, which owns, maintains or operates,
in whole or in part, an airport, hospital, sanitorium, public water supply,
sewage disposal plant or system, public building or any other municipal
or county property, beyond the territorial limits of such county, city
or town, may lawfully go or may be sent to the property so owned beyond
the limits of the county, city or town within which such policeman or
other officer has powers of arrest, for the purpose of protecting such
property, keeping order thereon, or otherwise enforcing the laws of the
Commonwealth, with respect to such property. Nothing in this section shall
ae or supersede the power and authority granted to a city by its
charter.