                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ELIGIBILITY FOR FUNDS (§ 9.1-168)

A. Any city, county, or town establishing a police department shall provide the
Department written notice of its intent to seek state funds in accordance with
the provisions of this article. Such city, county, or town shall become eligible
to receive funds at the beginning of the next fiscal year which commences not
sooner than twelve months after the filing of this notice.

B. No city, county, or town shall receive any funds in accordance with the terms
of this article unless it notifies the Department prior to July 1 each year that
its law-enforcement personnel, whether full-time or part-time and whether
permanently or temporarily employed, have complied with the minimum training
standards as provided in &#xA7;&#xA7; 9.1-102 and 9.1-114, unless such personnel
are exempt from the minimum training standards as provided in &#xA7;&#xA7;
9.1-113 and 9.1-116 or that an effort will be made to have its law-enforcement
personnel comply with such minimum training standards during the ensuing fiscal
year. Any city, county, or town failing to make an effort to comply with the
minimum training standards may be declared ineligible for funding in the
succeeding fiscal year by the Department.

C. A change in the form of government from city to tier-city shall not preclude
the successor tier-city which continues to provide a police department from
eligibility for funds.

D. Any county consolidated under the provisions of Chapter 35 (&#xA7; 15.2-3500
et seq.) of Title 15.2 shall be eligible to receive financial assistance for
law-enforcement expenditures subject to the provisions of this article. The
consolidated county shall be eligible to receive, on behalf of the formerly
incorporated towns that became shires, boroughs or special service tax districts
within the consolidated county, law-enforcement assistance under the provisions
of this article, provided that the consolidation agreement approved pursuant to
Chapter 35 (&#xA7; 15.2-3500 et seq.) of Title 15.2 provides for the additional
law-enforcement governmental services previously provided by the police
department of such incorporated towns.

HISTORY: 1981, c. 485, § 14.1-84.6:1; 1982, c. 600; 1983, c. 4, § 14.1-84.6:2;
1984, cc. 695, 779; 1998, c. 872, §§ 9-183.19, 9-183.20; 2001, c. 844.