CHAPTER 670

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 15.1-185 and 52-4.1, as amended, of the
Code of Virginia, relating to the taking of fingerprints and photo-
graphs of persons arrested and charged with crime.

(H 202]

Approved April 6, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 15.1-185 and 52-4.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 15.1-185. 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 or with any
misdemeanor an arrest for which is required to be reported by them to
the Central Criminal Records Exchange, and such authorities of cities
having a population of more than seventy thousand and any county having
a population of more than four thousand per square mile 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.
§ 52-4.1. The Department of State Police and the several officers and
employees thereof may take the fingerprints and photograph of any person
arrested by them and charged with a felony or with any misdemeanor an
arrest for which is required to be reported by them to the Central Criminal
Records Exchange; and on the request of any duly appointed law enforce-
ment officers may take the fingerprints of any such persons arrested by such
officers. * The Department shall * make such records * available to the
Central Criminal Records Exchange. The Department is authorized to
provide, on the request of duly appointed law enforcement officers, copies
of any fingerprint records it may have, and to furnish services and tech-
nical advice in connection with the taking, classifying and preserving
of fingerprints and fingerprint records.
2. ~ act shall become effective January one, nineteen hundred sixty-
eight.