                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

POWERS AND DUTIES OF SWORN UNIT INVESTIGATORS (§ 32.1-320.1)

A. The Attorney General may designate up to 30 persons in the unit established
under &#xA7; 32.1-320 as sworn unit investigators. Any individual designated as
a sworn unit investigator shall be sworn only to enforce the provisions of this
article. Sworn unit investigators shall be designated as law-enforcement
officers as defined in &#xA7; 9.1-101.

B. All sworn unit investigators shall remain subject to the federal requirements
authorizing State Medicaid Fraud Control Units pursuant to 42 C.F.R. Part 1007.

C. If a search warrant is issued for any place of abode, a sworn unit
investigator shall notify and request assistance from the State Police or the
local law-enforcement agency from the locality where such abode is located prior
to executing such search warrant. A sworn unit investigator shall not execute
any search warrant for the search of any place of abode unless such sworn unit
investigator is accompanied by a State Police officer or a local law-enforcement
officer from the locality where such abode is located. Any evidence obtained
from a search warrant executed in violation of this subsection shall not be
admitted into evidence for the Commonwealth in any prosecution.

HISTORY: 2023, c. 619.