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2002 SESSION
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. However, no such state-supported institution of higher learning shall
enter into such agreement with a noncontiguous institution of higher learning
without the consent of all localities within which such institutions are
located. 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.