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1997 SESSION
974160487Be 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 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, any federal law-enforcement
officer who has completed the minimum standards of training required by
§ 9-180 or by the federal agency employing such
officer, 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.