                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ENFORCEMENT BY LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS; OFFICERS TO BE UNIFORMED; OFFICERS TO
BE PAID FIXED SALARIES (§ 46.2-102)

State police officers and law-enforcement officers of every county, city, town,
or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth shall enforce the provisions
of this title punishable as felonies, misdemeanors, or traffic infractions.
Additionally, notwithstanding § 52-22, state police officers may enforce local
ordinances, adopted under subsection G of § 46.2-752, requiring the obtaining
and displaying of local motor vehicle licenses. Fifty percent of the revenue
collected from such enforcement shall be remitted by the locality to the
Department of State Police and disposed of by the Department to cover its costs
of operation. Every law-enforcement officer shall be uniformed at the time of
the enforcement or shall display his badge or other sign of authority. All
officers making arrests incident to the enforcement of this title shall be paid
fixed salaries for their services and shall have no interest in, nor be
permitted by law to accept the benefit of, any fine or fee resulting from the
arrest or conviction of an offender against any provision of this title.

With the consent of the landowner, any such officer or other uniformed employee
of the local law-enforcement agency may patrol the landowner&#8217;s property to
enforce state, county, city, or town motor vehicle registration and licensing
requirements.

Any law-enforcement officer may patrol the streets and roads within subdivisions
of real property or within a condominium pursuant to the Virginia Condominium
Act (§ 55.1-1900 et seq.) or land submitted to a horizontal property regime
pursuant to the Horizontal Property Act (§ 55.1-2000 et seq.), which streets
and roads are maintained by the owners of the lots or parcels of land within the
subdivision or the owners of condominium units within any horizontal property
regime or any association of owners, on the request or with the consent of the
owners or association of owners, to enforce the provisions of this title
punishable as felonies, misdemeanors, or traffic infractions.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 46-14; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-6; 1972, c. 700; 1975, c.
516; 1980, c. 523; 1989, c. 727; 1995, c. 132.