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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>85927</law_id><section_number>19.2-78</section_number><catch_line>Uniform of officer making arrest</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>18.2-175</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="19.2">Criminal Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="7">Arrest</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>All officers whose duties are to make <span class="dictionary">arrests</span> acting under the authority of any <span class="dictionary">law</span> of this Commonwealth or any subdivision thereof, who shall make any <span class="dictionary">arrest</span>, search or seizure on any public road or highway of this Commonwealth shall be dressed at the time of making any such <span class="dictionary">arrest</span>, search or seizure in such uniform as he may customarily wear in the performance of his duties which will clearly show him to casual observation to be an officer.
		Nothing in this section shall render unlawful any <span class="dictionary">arrest</span>, search or seizure by an officer who is not in such customary uniform.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 19.1-95, 19.1-96; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
