                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

POWER TO MAKE ARRESTS (§ 29.1-205)

All conservation police officers are vested with the authority, upon displaying
a badge or other credential of office, to issue a summons or to arrest any
person found in the act of violating any of the provisions of the hunting,
trapping, inland fish and boating laws.
		Regular conservation police officers are vested with the same authority as
sheriffs and other law-enforcement officers to enforce all of the criminal laws
of the Commonwealth.
		Any special conservation police officer shall have general police power while
performing his duty on properties owned or controlled by the Board.
		Any commissioned, warrant or petty officers of the United States Coast Guard
and of the United States Coast Guard Reserve while engaged on active duty, in
the conduct of their official duties in uniform, and any officers of the customs
as defined by 19 U.S.C. § 1709 (b), in the conduct of their official duties in
uniform, shall have the same power to make arrests under Chapter 7 (§ 29.1-700
et seq.) of Title 29.1 as conservation police officers.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 29-32; 1960, c. 540; 1979, c. 264; 1982, c. 64; 1987, c.
488; 1988, c. 605; 2007, c. 87.