§ 33.2-1918 Background checks of applicants and employees
A. Any commission created pursuant to this chapter may require any individual who is offered a position of employment with the commission, or with any contractor of the commission when such individual is to be assigned to directly provide transit services to the public under a contract with the commission, to submit to fingerprinting and to provide personal descriptive information to be forwarded along with the individual’s fingerprints through the Central Criminal Records Exchange to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the purpose of obtaining criminal history record information regarding such individual. The commission shall bear all costs of obtaining criminal history record information regarding such individual, including expenses incurred by the State Police in connection with such fingerprinting or criminal records check. The commission may require such individual or contractor to reimburse the commission for the cost of the fingerprinting or a criminal records check or both.
B. The Central Criminal Records Exchange, upon receipt of an individual’s record or notification that no record exists, shall make a report to the commission’s chief administrative officer, who must belong to a governmental entity. The information shall not be disseminated except as provided for in this section.
History
This law was first created in 2010. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 189 and 563 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2014, chapter 805.
2010, cc. 189, 563, § 15.1-4517.1; 2014, c. 805.