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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>66092</law_id><section_number>37.2-426</section_number><catch_line>Officers may be appointed conservators of the peace; regulation of traffic</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="37.2">Behavioral Health and Developmental Services</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">General Provisions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Protection of Consumers</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="4">Miscellaneous and Penal Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Special conservators of the peace; authority; jurisdiction; registration; liability of employers; penalty; report" href="/19.2-13/">19.2-13</a>, the director, resident officers, policemen, and fire fighters of any hospital or <span class="dictionary">training center</span> may be appointed conservators of the peace on the hospital or <span class="dictionary">training center</span> property and shall have, in addition to the powers of conservators of the peace, <span class="dictionary">authority</span> to patrol and regulate traffic on all roadways and roads through hospital or <span class="dictionary">training center</span> property and to <span class="dictionary">issue</span> <span class="dictionary">summons</span> for violations thereof.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 37-15; 1964, c. 298; 1968, c. 477, &#xA7; 37.1-148; 1972, c. 639; 1976, c. 671; 1977, c. 326; 2005, c. 716.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
