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2000 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 59.1-148.3 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 59.1-148.3. Purchase of handguns of certain officers.
A. The Department of State Police, the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries,
the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, the Marine Resources Commission,
the Capitol Police, any sheriff, and any local police department may allow any
full-time sworn law-enforcement officer or, deputy, or any former
Superintendent of the Department of State Police who leaves service after a minimum
of five years, a local fire department may allow any full-time sworn fire
marshal, the Department of Motor Vehicles may allow any law-enforcement
officer, and any institution of higher learning named in § 23-14 may allow any
campus police officer appointed pursuant to Chapter 17 (§ 23-232 et seq.) of
Title 23, retiring on or after July 1, 1991, who retires after at least twenty
years of service or as a result of a service-incurred disability to purchase
the service handgun issued to him by the agency or institution at a price of
one dollar. Other weapons issued by the Department of State Police for personal
duty use of an officer, may, with approval of the Superintendent be sold to the
officer subject to the qualifications of this section at a fair market price
determined as in subsection B, so long as the weapon is a type and
configuration that can be purchased at a regular hardware or sporting goods
store by a private citizen without restrictions other than the instant
background check.
B. The agencies listed above may allow any full-time sworn law-enforcement officer who retires with ten or more years of service, but less than twenty, to purchase the service handgun issued to him by the agency at a price equivalent to the weapon's fair market value on the date of the officer's retirement. Any full-time sworn law-enforcement officer employed by any of the agencies listed above who is retired for disability as a result of a nonservice-incurred disability may purchase the service handgun issued to him by the agency at a price equivalent to the weapon's fair market value on the date of the officer's retirement. Determinations of fair market value may be made by reference to a recognized pricing guide.
C. The agencies listed above may allow the immediate survivor of any full-time sworn law-enforcement officer (i) who is killed in the line of duty or (ii) who dies in service and has at least twenty years of service to purchase the service handgun issued to the officer by the agency at a price of one dollar.
D. The governing board of any institution of higher learning named in § 23-14 may allow any campus police officer appointed pursuant to Chapter 17 (§ 23-232 et seq.) of Title 23 who retires on or after July 1, 1991, to purchase the service handgun issued to him at a price equivalent to the weapon's fair market value on the date of the officer's retirement. Determinations of fair market value may be made by reference to a recognized pricing guide.
E. The Department of State Police may allow any full-time sworn state police law-enforcement officer who retires as a result of a service-incurred disability and who was on disability leave at the time the Department issued 10-mm semiautomatic handguns to its officers to purchase one of the 10-mm semiautomatic handguns used by the Department of State Police at a price of one dollar.
F. The Department of State Police may allow any officer who at the time of his retirement was a full-time sworn law-enforcement officer and who retires after twenty years of state service, even if a portion of his service was with another state agency, to purchase the service handgun issued to him by the Department at a price of one dollar.
G. The sheriff of any county with a population between 63,000 and 65,000 may allow any auxiliary or volunteer deputy sheriff with a minimum of fifteen years of service, upon leaving office, to purchase for one dollar the service handgun issued to him.