                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 9.1-500)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Agency&#8221; means the Department of State Police, the Division of
Capitol Police, the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, the Virginia Port
Authority, the Department of Wildlife Resources, the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage
Control Authority, the Department of Conservation and Recreation, or the
Department of Motor Vehicles; or the political subdivision or the campus police
department of any public institution of higher education of the Commonwealth
employing the law-enforcement officer.
		&#8220;Law-enforcement officer&#8221; means any person, other than a Chief of
Police or the Superintendent of the Department of State Police, who, in his
official capacity, is (i) authorized by law to make arrests and (ii) a
nonprobationary officer of one of the following agencies:
		a. The Department of State Police, the Division of Capitol Police, the
Virginia Marine Resources Commission, the Virginia Port Authority, the
Department of Wildlife Resources, the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control
Authority, the Department of Motor Vehicles, or the Department of Conservation
and Recreation;
		b. The police department, bureau or force of any political subdivision or the
campus police department of any public institution of higher education of the
Commonwealth where such department, bureau or force has three or more
law-enforcement officers; or
		c. Any conservation police officer as defined in § 9.1-101.
		For the purposes of this chapter, &#8220;law-enforcement officer&#8221; shall
not include the sheriff&#8217;s department of any city or county.

HISTORY: 1978, c. 19, § 2.1-116.1; 1979, c. 592; 1983, c. 357; 1995, c. 730;
2001, c. 844; 2007, cc. 87, 364; 2015, cc. 38, 730; 2019, c. 489; 2020, c. 958.