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2003 SESSION
035932536Be 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, any regional jail board or authority and any
local police department may allow any full-time sworn law-enforcement officer,
deputy, or regional jail officer, 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 20 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 $1. This privilege shall also extend
to any former Superintendent of the Department of State Police who leaves service
after a minimum of five 5 years. 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 10 or more years of service, but less than twenty
20, 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 20 years of service to purchase the
service handgun issued to the officer by the agency at a price of one dollar
$1.
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 1 of the 10-mm
semiautomatic handguns used by the Department of State Police at a price of one
dollar $1.
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 20 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 $1.
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 15
years of service, upon leaving office, to purchase for one dollar$1 the
service handgun issued to him.
H. Any sheriff or local police department may allow any auxiliary law-enforcement officer with more than 20 years of service to purchase the service handgun issued to him by the agency at a price that is equivalent to or less than the weapon's fair market value on the date of purchase by the officer.