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2005 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 10.1-116 and 15.2-1736 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 10.1-116. Jurisdiction of conservation officers.
Conservation officers shall have jurisdiction throughout the
Commonwealth on all Department lands and waters and upon lands and waters under
the management or control of the Department; on property of the United
States government or a department or agency thereof on which the Commonwealth
has concurrent jurisdiction and is contiguous with land of the Department or on
which the Department has a management interest; on a property of another state
agency or department whose property is contiguous with land of the Department;
and in those local jurisdictions in which mutual aid agreements have been
established pursuant to § 15.2-1736.
Special conservation officers appointed pursuant to § 10.1-115 shall have jurisdiction throughout the Commonwealth.
§ 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, and the Director of the Department of Conservation and Recreation with commissioned conservation officers, or any combination thereof 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 another state-supported institution of higher education in a noncontiguous locality 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.