Monday, December 1, 2008
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Tracking Virginia’s General Assembly
since 2007.
HB755: Deputies; personnel costs in preparation for new regional jail facility.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 15.2-1609.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 15.2-1609.1. Number of deputies.
Except as provided in § 15.2-1603, the respective number of
full-time deputies appointed by the sheriff of a county or city shall be fixed
by the Compensation Board after receiving such recommendation of the board of
supervisors of the county or the council of the city, as the case may be, as
the board of supervisors or city council may desire to make. Such
recommendation, if any, shall be made to the Compensation Board on or before
April 1 of each year. In any county without a police force, upon the request of
the board of supervisors of such county, the number of such law-enforcement
deputies shall be fixed at not less than one such deputy for each 1,500
population in such county excluding the population served by state educational
institution police departments if the sheriff's department does not provide the
majority of the law-enforcement activities to such population according to
uniform crime reports compiled by the Department of State Police. The
Compensation Board shall also consider any agreement the sheriff may have
pursuant to § 15.2-1726 and any obligation obligations he
may have pursuant to this section to provide law enforcement for towns in
fixing the number of deputies, or the hiring and personnel costs in preparation
for the opening of a regional jail facility. The governing body of
any county or city may employ a greater number of law-enforcement deputies than
fixed by the Compensation Board, provided that the county or city shall pay the
total compensation and all employer costs for such additional deputies.
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