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2019 SESSION
19103544DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 4 through 7 of Chapter 486 of the Acts of Assembly of 1892 are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 4. Appointment, compensation, duties, and bonds of chief of police, clerk, and treasurer.
The council shall appoint annually a sergeant chief of police, clerk, and
treasurer, and shall fix their
compensation and prescribe their duties, and
require such bonds as may be deemed proper.
§ 5. Chief of police to have powers of sheriff as to collection of taxes, levies, and fines and service and return of process.
The sergeant chief of police of said town,
who shall from time to time be appointed under this act charter, shall have the like
rights of distress and a power for collecting the taxes and levies made by said
council of said town as sheriffs in similar cases, and shall be entitled to the
same or like fees and commissions for collecting said taxes and levies, as are
allowed sheriffs for collecting county levies, and in the service and return of
all processes, and in the collection of all fines arising under the authority
of this act charter,
or of any bylaws made in pursuance hereof, he shall have and possess the same
rights and powers and be entitled to the same or like fees and commissions as
allowed by law to sheriffs for similar services.
§ 6. Chief of police to have powers and liabilities of constable as to collection of money and execution of warrants.
The sergeant chief of police of said town,
upon entering into bond in the county general district court of
Rockbridge county County,
in the manner prescribed by law for constables, and with such conditions as
constables are required by law to enter into, shall have all the power and
authority of a constable in the collection of money by warrant or otherwise,
and to execute any and all process to him directed, or which might have been so
directed; and shall and may do and perform all acts, execute and return such
warrants, and be liable in the same manner and to the same extent that
constables are by laws now in force.
§ 7. Power of chief of police to arrest persons in violation of town ordinances.
The sergeant chief of police of said town
shall be conservator of the peace, and shall have power to arrest in said town,
or anywhere within Rockbridge county County, upon a warrant issued
by the mayor, recorder, or councilmen, any person charged with a violation of
the laws or ordinances of said town; and when a violation of the laws or
ordinances of said town is committed in his presence, he shall have authority
and power, without warrant, forthwith to arrest the offender, and carry him
before some conservator of the peace of said town to be dealt with according to
law.