HB125: Conservators of the peace; includes NASA's special agents.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 19.2-12 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 19.2-12. Who are conservators of the peace.
Every judge and attorney for the Commonwealth throughout the
Commonwealth and every magistrate within the geographical area for which he is
appointed or elected, shall be a conservator of the peace. In addition, every
commissioner in chancery, while sitting as such commissioner; any special agent
or law-enforcement officer of the United States Department of Justice, National
Marine Fisheries Service of the United States Department of Commerce,
Department of Treasury, Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense,
Department of State, Office of the Inspector General of the Department of
Transportation, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Interior;
any inspector, law-enforcement official or police personnel of the United
States Postal Inspection Service; any United States marshal or deputy United
States marshal whose duties involve the enforcement of the criminal laws of the
United States; any officer of the Virginia Marine Police; any criminal
investigator of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, who
meets the minimum law-enforcement training requirements established by the
Department of Criminal Justice Services for in-service training; any criminal
investigator of the United States Department of Labor; and any
special agent of the United States Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and
any special agent or security police officer of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, shall be a conservator of the peace, while engaged in the
performance of their official duties.
