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§ 15.2-1700. Preservation of peace and good order - Any locality may provide for the protection of its inhabitants...
§ 15.2-1701. Organization of police forces - Any locality may, by ordinance, provide for the organization of...
§ 15.2-1702. Referendum required prior to establishment of county police force - A. A county shall not establish a police force unless...
§ 15.2-1703. Referendum to abolish county police force - The police force in any county which established the force...
§ 15.2-1704. Powers and duties of police force - A. The police force of a locality is hereby invested...
§ 15.2-1705. Minimum qualifications; waiver - A. The chief of police and all police officers of...
§ 15.2-1706. Certification through training required for all law-enforcement officers; waiver of requirements - A. All law-enforcement officers as defined in § 9.1-101 and...
§ 15.2-1707. Decertification of law-enforcement officers - A. The sheriff, chief of police, or agency administrator shall...
§ 15.2-1708. Notice of decertification - A. Service of notice. The Board shall, within ten days...
§ 15.2-1709. Employer immunity from liability; disclosure of information regarding former deputy sheriffs and law-enforcement officers - Any sheriff or chief of police, any director or chief...
§ 15.2-1710. Fees and other compensation - A police officer shall not receive any fee or other...
§ 15.2-1710.1. Arrest or summons quota prohibited - A. A police force shall not establish a formal or...
§ 15.2-1711. Providing legal fees and expenses for law-enforcement officers; repayment to locality of two-thirds of amount by Compensation Board - If any law-enforcement officer is investigated, arrested or indicted or...
§ 15.2-1712. Employment of off-duty officers - Notwithstanding the provisions of §§ 2.2-3100 through 2.2-3127, any locality...
§ 15.2-1713. Localities authorized to offer and pay rewards in felony and misdemeanor cases - When any felony or misdemeanor has been committed, or there...
§ 15.2-1713.1. Local "Crime Stoppers" programs; confidentiality - A. As used in this section, a "Crime Stoppers," "crime...
§ 15.2-1714. Establishing police lines, perimeters, or barricades - Whenever fires, accidents, wrecks, explosions, crimes, riots, or other emergency...
§ 15.2-1715. Authority to declare Intensified Drug Enforcement Jurisdictions; expenditure of funds - Whenever, in the judgment of the Governor or his designee,...
§ 15.2-1716. Reimbursement of expenses incurred in responding to DUI and related incidents - A. Any locality may provide by ordinance that a person...
§ 15.2-1716.1. Reimbursement of expenses incurred in responding to terrorism hoax incident, bomb threat, or malicious activation of fire alarm - Any locality may provide by ordinance that any person who...
§ 15.2-1716.2. Methamphetamine lab cleanup costs; localities may charge for reimbursement - Any locality may provide by ordinance that any person who...
§ 15.2-1717. Preventing interference with pupils at schools - Localities may adopt any reasonable ordinance necessary to prevent any...
§ 15.2-1717.1. Designation of police to enforce trespass violations - Any locality may by ordinance establish a procedure whereby the...
§ 15.2-1718. Receipt of missing child reports - No police or sheriff's department shall establish or maintain any...
§ 15.2-1718.1. Receipt of missing senior adult reports - A. No police or sheriff's department shall establish or maintain...
§ 15.2-1718.2. Receipt of critically missing adult reports - A. No police or sheriff's department shall establish or maintain...
§ 15.2-1719. Disposal of unclaimed property in possession of sheriff or police - Any locality may provide by ordinance for (i) the public...
§ 15.2-1720. Localities authorized to license bicycles, electric power-assisted bicycles, mopeds, and electric personal assistive mobility devices; disposition of unclaimed bicycles, electric power-assisted bicycles, mopeds, and electric personal ass... - Any locality may, by ordinance, (i) provide for the public...
§ 15.2-1721. Disposal of unclaimed firearms or other weapons in possession of sheriff or police - Any locality may destroy unclaimed firearms and other weapons which...
§ 15.2-1721.1. Acquisition of military property by localities - A. No locality, sheriff, chief of police, or director or...
§ 15.2-1722. Certain records to be kept by sheriffs and chiefs of police - A. It shall be the duty of the sheriff or...
§ 15.2-1722.1. Prohibited practices; collection of data - A. No law-enforcement officer shall engage in bias-based profiling as...
§ 15.2-1723. Validation of certain police forces - Any police force in existence on July 1, 1980, whose...
§ 15.2-1723.1. Body-worn camera system - A. For purposes of this section, "body-worn camera system" means...
§ 15.2-1723.2. (Effective until July 1, 2026) Facial recognition technology; approval; penalty - A. For purposes of this section: "Authorized use" means the...
§ 15.2-1723.2. (Effective July 1, 2026) Facial recognition technology; approval - A. For purposes of this section: "Authorized use" means the...
§ 15.2-1724. Police and other officers may be sent beyond territorial limits - Whenever the necessity arises (i) for the enforcement of laws...
§ 15.2-1725. Extending police power of localities over lands lying beyond boundaries thereof; jurisdiction of courts - Any locality owning and operating an airport, public hospital, sanitarium,...
§ 15.2-1725.1. Concurrent jurisdiction; limitations - For the purposes of local public safety regulatory authority and...
§ 15.2-1726. Agreements for consolidation of police departments or for cooperation in furnishing police services - Any locality may, in its discretion, enter into a reciprocal...
§ 15.2-1727. Reciprocal agreements with localities outside the Commonwealth - A locality, public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth,...
§ 15.2-1728. Mutual aid agreements between police departments and federal authorities - In any case where exclusive jurisdiction over any property or...
§ 15.2-1729. Agreements for enforcement of state and county laws by federal officers on federal property - A. The governing body of any county may enter into...
§ 15.2-1730. Calling upon law-enforcement officers of counties, cities or towns for assistance - In case of an emergency declared by the chief law-enforcement...
§ 15.2-1730.1. Authority and immunity of sheriffs and deputies - In counties where no police department has been established and...
§ 15.2-1731. Establishment, etc., authorized; powers, authority and immunities generally - A. Localities, for the further preservation of the public peace,...
§ 15.2-1732. Appropriations for equipment and maintenance - Localities may make such appropriations as may be necessary to...
§ 15.2-1733. Appointment of auxiliary police officers; revocation of appointment; uniform; organization; rules and regulations - The governing body of the locality may appoint or provide...
§ 15.2-1734. Calling auxiliary police officers into service; police officers performing service to wear uniform; exception - A. A locality may call into service or provide for...
§ 15.2-1735. Acting beyond limits of jurisdiction of locality - The members of any such auxiliary police force shall not...
§ 15.2-1736. Mutual aid agreements among governing bodies of localities - The governing bodies of localities, institutions of higher learning having...
§ 15.2-1737. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2014, c. 543, cl. 2.
§ 15.2-1747. Creation of academies - A. The governing bodies of two or more localities or...
§ 15.2-1748. Powers of the academies - A. Upon organization of an academy, it shall be a...
§ 15.2-1749. Revenue bonds - A. Each academy is hereby authorized, after a resolution adopted...
§ 15.2-1750. Governmental units authorized to appropriate or lend funds - The governmental units which are parties of the agreement creating...
§ 15.2-1751. Exemption from taxation - Any academy created under the provisions of this article shall...
§ 15.2-1752. Governmental immunity - Any academy created pursuant to this article shall be deemed...
§ 15.2-1753. Liability of board members - No member of the board of directors of an academy...