                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PAYMENTS TO INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR CERTAIN COURSES TAKEN BY
LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS (§ 23.1-602)

A. The Department of Criminal Justice Services shall enter into contracts to
make payments to public institutions of higher education and accredited private
institutions of higher education whose primary campus is within the Commonwealth
for tuition, books, and mandatory fees for any law-enforcement officer of the
Commonwealth or its political subdivisions, departments, or authorities or any
locality of the Commonwealth who (i) is enrolled on a full-time or part-time
basis in courses included in an undergraduate or graduate program that leads to
a degree or certificate in an area relating to law enforcement or suitable for
law-enforcement officers and (ii) enters into an agreement to continue to serve
as a law-enforcement officer in the Commonwealth upon completion of his course
of study for a period at least as long as the length of the course of study
undertaken and paid for under the provisions of this section and, in the event
that he does not complete such service, to repay the full amount of such
payments on the terms and in the manner that the Department of Criminal Justice
Services prescribes.

B. Any individual who receives the benefit of funds expended pursuant to this
section shall reimburse such funds to the Department of Criminal Justice
Services if he fails to satisfactorily complete the course for which the funds
were expended.
			The Department of Criminal Justice Services shall use such reimbursed funds
in accordance with the purposes of this section.

HISTORY: 1972, c. 697, § 23-9.2:4; 1974, c. 162; 1977, c. 162; 1982, c. 18;
1986, c. 236; 2016, c. 588.