                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 52-34.7)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Law-enforcement agency&#8221; means a law-enforcement agency with
jurisdiction over the search for a suspect in a case involving the death or
serious injury of a law-enforcement officer or an agency employing a
law-enforcement officer who is missing in the line of duty.
		&#8220;Law-enforcement officer&#8221; means any full-time or part-time
employee of the Department of State Police or a police department or
sheriff&#8217;s office that is a part of or administered by the Commonwealth or
any political subdivision thereof, and any campus police officer appointed under
Article 3 (§ 23.1-809 et seq.) of Chapter 8 of Title 23.1, who is responsible
for the prevention and detection of crime and the enforcement of the penal,
traffic, or highway laws of the Commonwealth.

HISTORY: 2011, c. 669; 2012, c. 776.