                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ENFORCEMENT OF ARTICLE (§ 10.1-1417)

The Department shall have the authority to contract with other state and local
governmental agencies having law-enforcement powers for services and personnel
reasonably necessary to carry out the provisions of this article. In addition,
all law-enforcement officers in the Commonwealth and those employees of the
Department of Wildlife Resources vested with police powers shall enforce the
provisions of this article and regulations adopted hereunder, and are hereby
empowered to arrest without warrant, persons violating any provision of this
article or any regulations adopted hereunder. The foregoing enforcement officers
may serve and execute all warrants and other process issued by the courts in
enforcing the provisions of this article and regulations adopted hereunder.

HISTORY: 1987, c. 234, § 10-277.4; 1988, c. 891; 2020, c. 958.