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2010 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 institutions of
higher learning having a police force appointed pursuant to § 23-233, and
institutions of higher education having a private police force, as well as
sheriffs, 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 forces, both regular and auxiliary, their
equipment and materials to maintain peace and good order. However, no such
institution of higher learning shall enter into such agreement with another
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.