                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHO ARE CONSERVATORS OF THE PEACE (§ 19.2-12)

Every judge and attorney for the Commonwealth throughout the Commonwealth and
every magistrate within the geographical area for which he is appointed or
elected shall be a conservator of the peace. In addition, every commissioner in
chancery, while sitting as such commissioner; any special agent or
law-enforcement officer of the U.S. Department of Justice, National Marine
Fisheries Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of the
Treasury, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S.
Department of State, Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of
Transportation, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and U.S. Department of the
Interior; any inspector, law-enforcement official, or police personnel of the
United States Postal Service; any United States marshal or deputy United States
marshal whose duties involve the enforcement of the criminal laws of the United
States; any officer of the Virginia Marine Police; any criminal investigator of
the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation who meets the minimum
law-enforcement training requirements established by the Department of Criminal
Justice Services for in-service training; any criminal investigator of the U.S.
Department of Labor; any special agent of the United States Naval Criminal
Investigative Service, United States Army Criminal Investigation Division, or
United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations; any special agent of
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; any sworn municipal park
ranger who has completed all requirements under § 15.2-1706; and any
investigator employed by an attorney for the Commonwealth who within 10 years
immediately prior to being employed by the attorney for the Commonwealth was an
active law-enforcement officer as defined in § 9.1-101 in the Commonwealth and
retired or resigned from his position as a law-enforcement officer in good
standing shall be a conservator of the peace while engaged in the performance of
his official duties.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 19.1-20; 1960, c. 366; 1968, c. 639; 1972, c. 549; 1975,
c. 495; 1978, c. 697; 1981, cc. 572, 587; 1990, c. 558; 1991, cc. 74, 338; 1994,
cc. 375, 569, 626; 1997, c. 34; 2001, cc. 3, 31; 2002, cc. 86, 605, 789; 2004,
c. 1009; 2005, c. 372; 2006, c. 88; 2007, c. 224; 2015, cc. 75, 126; 2017, c.
674; 2023, cc. 107, 108.