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1995 SESSION
LD1707607WHEREAS, the State Police, the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, the Virginia Marine Patrol, the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, the State Lottery Department, the Department of Motor Vehicles and other entities all have certain police powers statewide; and
WHEREAS, the police powers of those agencies and their agents overlap; and
WHEREAS, the overlapping of those powers may result in unnecessary expenditures and occasionally does result in disagreements among those agencies about which is the proper agency to exercise those powers; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED by the Senate, the House of Delegates concurring, That the Secretary
of Public Safety, with the assistance of the [ Joint Legislative Audit and
Review Virginia State Crime ] Commission study the need, feasibility, and
advisability of placing all such police powers into the [ Division
Department ] of State Police under the administrative control of the
superintendent of State Police.
The Secretary of Public Safety, with the assistance of the [ Joint
Legislative Audit and Review Virginia State Crime ] Commission, shall
complete his work in time to submit his findings and recommendations to the
Governor and the 1996 Session of the General Assembly as provided in the
procedures of the Division of Legislative Automated Systems for the
processing of legislative documents.