SB 882

            
2020 SESSION

20104881D

SENATE BILL NO. 882


Offered January 8, 2020


Prefiled January 8, 2020

A BILL to amend and reenact � 29.1-200 of the Code of 
 Virginia, relating to conservation police officers; external appointment.
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Patron-- Locke

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Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
 
 
1. That � 29.1-200 of the Code of Virginia is amended and 
 reenacted as follows:
 
 
� 29.1-200. Appointment of conservation police officers.
 
 
A. The 
 Director shall appoint regular and special conservation police officers as he 
 may deem necessary to enforce the game and inland fish laws and shall issue a 
 certificate of appointment to each conservation police officer. Any special 
 conservation police officer initially appointed after October 1, 2009, shall 
 have a valid registration as a Special Conservator of the Peace from the 
 Department of Criminal Justice Services.
 
 
B. All 
 appointments to sworn law-enforcement positions above the rank of conservation 
 police officer within the Department shall be made by the Director 
 of the Department from among the sworn conservation police officers, except for 
 those positions designated in subdivision 20 of � 2.2-2905, or whenever the 
 Director determines, in writing, that a position requires knowledge, skills, or 
 abilities such that a sufficient pool of qualified candidates does not exist 
 within the Department.