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1997 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 19.2-12 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 19.2-12. Who are conservators of the peace.
Every judge throughout the Commonwealth and every magistrate within the
geographical area for which he is appointed or elected, shall be a conservator
of the peace. In addition, every commissioner in chancery, while sitting as
such commissioner, and any special agent or law-enforcement
officer of the United States Department of Justice, National Marine
Fisheries Service of the United States Department of Commerce, Department of
Treasury, Department of Agriculture, Department of State, and Department of
Interior, any inspector, law-enforcement official or police personnel of the
United States Postal Inspection Service and any United States marshal or deputy
United States marshal whose duties involve the enforcement of the criminal laws
of the United States, any officer of the Virginia Marine Patrol, any criminal
investigator of the United States Department of Labor, and any special agent of
the United States Naval Criminal Investigative Service shall be a conservator
of the peace, while engaged in the performance of their official duties.