CHAPTER 476

An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-185, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to when police authorities are authorized to take
fingerprints and photographs. a 4

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Approved April 4, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15.1-135, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 15.1-135. All duly constituted police authorities of counties, cities
and towns are hereby authorized to take the fingerprints and photograph of
any person arrested and charged by them with a felony, and such authori-
ties of cities having a population of more than seventy thousand and any
county having a population of more than four thousand per square mile
and any county adjoining a city lying wholly within this State having a
population of more than two hundred thousand are further authorized to
take the fingerprints of any person arrested and charged by them with a
misdemeanor, other than a misdemeanor under Title 46.1, where such
person is taken into physical custody by such police authorities; provided,
however, that the foregoing authority shall not include the authority to
fingerprint juveniles charged with misdemeanors in any county adjoining
a city lying wholly within this State having a population of more than two
hundred thousand.