                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

POLICE JURISDICTION OVER LANDS, BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES; JURISDICTION OF
OFFENSES; APPEALS; JURISDICTION IN CERTAIN PUBLIC BUILDINGS WITH
MAGISTRATE&#8217;S OFFICES (§ 15.2-1124)

A. Lands, buildings or structures provided and operated by a municipality for
any purpose defined in this article shall be under the police jurisdiction of
the municipal corporation for the enforcement of its regulations respecting the
use or occupancy thereof. All police officers of the municipal corporation shall
have jurisdiction to make arrests on such land and in such buildings or
structures for violations of such regulations. Such criminal case shall be
prosecuted in the locality in which the offense was committed.

B. In any public building that is located in Henry County adjoining a municipal
corporation and that contains a magistrate&#8217;s office which serves the
municipal corporation, the sheriff, any deputy sheriff, and any police officer
of the municipal corporation shall have the same powers which such sheriff,
deputy sheriff or police officer would have in the municipal corporation itself.
The courts of the municipal corporation and the locality in which such public
building is located shall have concurrent jurisdiction of any offense committed
against or any escape from any such sheriff, deputy sheriff, or police officer
in such public building, provided that the sheriff, deputy sheriff, or police
officer was present in the public building while in the performance of his
official duties. Such police powers and concurrent jurisdiction shall also apply
during travel between the municipal corporation and the public building by such
sheriff, deputy sheriffs, and police officers while in the performance of their
official duties. For purposes of this subsection, a &#8220;public
building&#8221; shall include the surrounding grounds of such building.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 15-77.51; 1958, c. 328; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-887; 1997,
cc. 587, 739; 2007, c. 813; 2014, c. 543.