                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

BACKGROUND CHECKS REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN EMPLOYEES (§ 15.2-634.1)

As a condition of employment, any county having the county manager form of
government shall require any applicant who is offered or accepts employment,
whether full-time or part-time, permanent or temporary or contractual, at such
county&#8217;s water treatment facility after September 1, 2001, to submit to
fingerprinting and to provide personal descriptive information to be forwarded
along with the applicant&#8217;s fingerprints through the Central Criminal
Records Exchange to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the purpose of
obtaining criminal history record information regarding such applicant. Such
applicants shall, if required by ordinance, pay the cost of fingerprinting or a
criminal records check or both.
		The Central Criminal Records Exchange, upon receipt of an applicant&#8217;s
record or notification that no record exists, shall make a report to the county
manager or his designee, who must belong to a governmental entity. If an
applicant is denied employment because of the information appearing in his
criminal history record, the county shall notify the applicant that information
obtained from the Central Criminal Records Exchange contributed to such denial.
The information shall not be disseminated except as provided for in this
section.

HISTORY: 2003, c. 202.