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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>66005</law_id><section_number>10.1-116</section_number><catch_line>Jurisdiction of conservation officers</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="10.1">Conservation</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Activities Administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="4">Conservation Officers</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Conservation officers shall have <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> throughout the Commonwealth on all <span class="dictionary">Department</span> lands and waters and upon lands and waters under the management or control of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>, on property of the United States government or a <span class="dictionary">department</span> or agency thereof on which the Commonwealth has concurrent <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> and is contiguous with land of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> or on which the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> has a management interest, on property operated by the Breaks Interstate Park Commission within the Commonwealth of Virginia with the written agreement of the Commission, on a property of another state agency or <span class="dictionary">department</span> whose property is contiguous with land of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>, and in those local <span class="dictionary">jurisdictions</span> in which mutual aid agreements have been established pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Mutual aid agreements among governing bodies of localities" href="/15.2-1736/">15.2-1736</a>.
		Special conservation officers appointed pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Appointment of conservation officers; qualifications; oath" href="/10.1-115/">10.1-115</a> shall have <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> throughout the Commonwealth.</p></section></text><history>1994, c. 205; 2005, c. 87; 2015, cc. 64, 489.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
