CHAPTER 607

An Act to amend and reenact § 14.1-80 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to manner of payment of certain items in budgets of sheriffs and
sergeants.

[H 863]
Approved April 4, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

Py That § 14.1-80 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 14.1-80. Manner of payment of certain items in budgets of sheriffs
and sergeants.—Whenever a sheriff or sergeant purchases office furniture,
office equipment, stationery, office supplies, telephone or telegraph service,
or repairs to office furniture and equipment in conformity with and within
the limits of allowances duly made and contained in the then current
budget of any such officer under the provisions of this chapter, the invoices
therefor, after examination as to their correctness, shall be paid by the
county or city directly to the vendors, and the State shall monthly pay the
county or city the State’s proportionate part of the cost of such items on
submission by such officer to the Compensation Board of duplicate invoices
and such other information or evidence as the Compensation Board may
deem necessary. This action shall also apply to the payment of the pre-
miums on the official bonds of such officers, their deputies and employees,
and to the premiums on burglary and other insurance. Duly authorized
postage necessary for any such officer shall be purchased by the county or
city for his official use on certification by him of his need therefor to the
appropriate county or city authorities from time to time, and the State
shall monthly reimburse the county or city for the State’s proportionate
part of the cost of such postage on submission of satisfactory evidence
to the Compensation Board.

The Compensation Board may allow as an expense allowance to the
sheriff of any county and to the sergeant of any city the cost of operation,
maintenance and repair of a closed circuit television system and all acces-
sories thereto or of leasing electronic security equipment or making repairs
to the same, which system and equipment are installed in any jail under
his control for the surveillance of prisoners.