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HOUSE BILL NO. 894 Offered January 9, 2002 Prefiled January 9, 2002 A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-1736 of the Code of Virginia, relating to mutual aid agreements. ---------- Patrons-- McDougle, Cosgrove and Jones, S.C. ---------- Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15.2-1736 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 15.2-1736. Mutual aid agreements among governing bodies of localities.

The governing bodies of localities, and state-supported institutions of higher learning having a police force appointed pursuant to § 23-233, as well as sheriffs with law-enforcement authority within localities without a police force, or any combination thereof whose boundaries are contiguous, by proper resolutions, may, by proper resolutions, enter in and become a party to contracts or mutual aid agreements for the use of their joint police or other law-enforcement forces, both regular and auxiliary, their equipment and materials to maintain peace and good order. Any police or other law-enforcement officer, regular or auxiliary, while performing his duty under any such contract or agreement, shall have the same authority in such locality as he has within the locality where he was appointed.

In counties where no police department has been established, the sheriff may, in his discretion, enter into mutual aid agreements as provided by this section.