                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

MUTUAL AID AGREEMENTS AMONG GOVERNING BODIES OF LOCALITIES (§ 15.2-1736)

The governing bodies of localities, institutions of higher learning having a
police force appointed pursuant to subsection B of § 23.1-812, and institutions
of higher education having a private police force, as well as sheriffs, and the
Director of the Department of Conservation and Recreation with commissioned
conservation officers, or any combination thereof may, by proper resolutions,
enter in and become a party to contracts or mutual aid agreements for the use of
their joint forces, both regular and auxiliary, their equipment and materials to
maintain peace and good order, including providing transportation for such
person subject to an emergency custody order pursuant to § 37.2-808 or
providing transportation for a person in the temporary detention process
pursuant to § 37.2-810. However, no such institution of higher learning shall
enter into such agreement with another institution of higher education in a
noncontiguous locality without the consent of all localities within which such
institutions are located. Any police or other law-enforcement officer, regular
or auxiliary, while performing his duty under any such contract or agreement,
shall have the same authority in such locality as he has within the locality
where he was appointed.
		In counties where no police department has been established, the sheriff may,
in his discretion, enter into mutual aid agreements as provided by this section.

HISTORY: 1968, c. 157, § 15.1-159.7; 1987, c. 421; 1994, c. 268; 1997, cc. 587,
604; 2002, cc. 684, 709, 876; 2005, c. 87; 2006, c. 286; 2009, cc. 461, 609;
2010, c. 523; 2022, c. 730.