15.2-1712 - Employment of off-duty officers. - Virginia Statutes

§ 15.2-1712. Employment of off-duty officers.

Notwithstanding the provisions of §§ 2.2-3100 through 2.2-3127, any localitymay adopt an ordinance which permits law-enforcement officers and deputysheriffs in such locality to engage in off-duty employment which mayoccasionally require the use of their police powers in the performance ofsuch employment. Such ordinance may include reasonable rules to apply to suchoff-duty employment, or it may delegate the promulgation of such reasonablerules to the chief of the respective police departments or the sheriff of thecounty or city.

(1978, c. 537, § 15.1-133.1; 1997, c. 587.)