reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
VA Code § 52-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 4 - Arrests by State Police|§ 52-20. Arrests without warrants in certain cases

Members of the State Police force of the Commonwealth, provided such officers are in uniform, or displaying a badge of office, may, at the scene of any motor vehicle accident, or in the apprehension of any person charged with the theft of any motor vehicle, on any of the highways of the Commonwealth, upon reasonable grounds to believe, based upon personal investigation, including information obtained from eyewitnesses, that a crime has been committed by any person then and there present, apprehend such person without a warrant of arrest; and such officers may arrest, without a warrant, persons duly charged with crime in another jurisdiction upon receipt of a telegram, a radio or teletype message, in which telegram, radio or teletype message shall be given the name or a reasonably accurate description of such person wanted, the crime alleged and an allegation that such person is likely to flee the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth.1942, p. 481; Michie Code 1942, § 4827a; 1950, p. 888.
VA Code § 52-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 4 - Arrests by State Police|§ 52-21. Procedure after arrest without warrant

Except in the case of a violation of a provision of Title 46.2, in which case the officer making the arrest shall proceed as provided in § 46.2-936, the officer making the arrest shall forthwith bring the person so arrested before an officer authorized to issue criminal warrants in the county or city where the arrest is made. The officer before whom such person is brought shall proceed to examine the officer making the arrest. If the officer before whom such person is brought has reasonable grounds upon which to believe that a criminal offense has been committed, and that the person arrested has committed such offense, he shall issue such a warrant as might have been issued prior to the arrest of such person under the provisions of § 19.2-72. If such a warrant is issued the case shall thereafter be disposed of in like manner as though the warrant had been issued prior to the arrest. If such a warrant be not issued the person so arrested shall be released.1942, p. 481; Michie Code 1942, § 4827a; 1960, c. 375; 1962, c. 22; 1982, c. 35.
VA Code § 52-22 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 4 - Arrests by State Police|§ 52-22. Arrests for violations of ordinances

The Superintendent of State Police, his assistants, and the State troopers, patrolmen and police officers appointed by him, shall have authority to execute warrants of arrest for violations of ordinances of counties, cities and towns when requested so to do by the county, city or town authorities. Such arrests may be made upon information transmitted as provided in § 52-20, as well as in cases where the officer is in possession of the warrant.The execution of any such warrant shall rest entirely in the discretion of the Superintendent and other officers who may be requested to execute the same, and no such officer shall execute the same in any case where it will in any way interfere with, delay or hinder him in the discharge of his official duties.1947, p. 30; Michie Suppl. 1948, § 4827b.
VA Code § 52-23 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 5 - Investigators and Special State Police Officers|§ 52-23. Appointment by Governor; power and jurisdiction

The Governor may appoint whenever he deems the same necessary, and may remove at will, investigators and temporary special police officers, who shall be directly responsible to the Governor, be conservators of the peace and have jurisdiction throughout the Commonwealth in the enforcement of the laws of the Commonwealth. Such investigators and special police officers shall have in all the counties, cities and towns of the Commonwealth all the power and authority, in connection with the enforcement of the laws of the Commonwealth, vested by law in sheriffs of the counties and police officers of cities and towns.Code 1919, § 332; 1932, p. 136; 1958, c. 611.
VA Code § 52-24 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 5 - Investigators and Special State Police Officers|§ 52-24. Compensation

Such investigators and temporary special police officers shall be paid such compensation as may be allowed by the Governor, such compensation to be paid from such moneys as shall be appropriated to the Governor for the executive control of the Commonwealth, and not otherwise specifically appropriated.Code 1919, § 332; 1932, p. 136; 1958, c. 611.
VA Code § 52-25 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 6 - Uniform Crime Reporting Program|§ 52-25. Uniform crime reporting system established

The Superintendent shall establish, organize, equip, staff and maintain within the Department of State Police, at such departmental locations as the Superintendent may direct, a uniform crime reporting system for the purpose of receiving, compiling, classifying, analyzing and publishing crime statistics of offenses known, persons arrested, and persons charged and other information pertaining to the investigation of crime and the apprehension of criminals, as hereinafter provided. The Superintendent shall appoint or designate necessary personnel to carry out the duties and assignments in accordance with rules and regulations pertaining thereto promulgated by the Superintendent.1974, c. 577.
VA Code § 52-25.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 6 - Uniform Crime Reporting Program|§ 52-25.1. Reporting and return of firearms confiscated or recovered by law-enforcement agencies

A. Whenever a law-enforcement agency confiscates a firearm in connection with a criminal investigation or otherwise recovers a firearm, such agency shall immediately take all appropriate steps to identify and trace the history of such firearm.B. The Superintendent shall establish a procedure within the Department of State Police to obtain information regarding all firearms seized, forfeited, found, or otherwise coming into the possession of any state or local law-enforcement agency of the Commonwealth. All law-enforcement agencies of the Commonwealth and of political subdivisions of the Commonwealth shall share with other Virginia law-enforcement agencies all information regarding firearms seized, forfeited, found, or otherwise coming into the agency's possession that are believed to have been used in the commission of a crime and shall enter such information into a firearms tracing system maintained by the U.S. Department of Justice. The Superintendent shall adopt regulations prescribing the method for reporting this information and the time and manner of submission of the information to a firearms tracing system maintained by the U.S. Department of Justice.C. Except as provided in § 19.2-386.29, whenever a firearm is identified as stolen, the law-enforcement agency shall return such firearm to the rightful owner thereof, if known, provided the owner is not prohibited from possessing the firearm and the agency does not need to retain the firearm as evidence in a criminal prosecution.1993, cc. 475, 834; 1994, cc. 394, 502; 2016, c. 214.
VA Code § 52-26 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 6 - Uniform Crime Reporting Program|§ 52-26. Cooperation with other law-enforcement agencies

The Superintendent is authorized to maintain liaison and to cooperate with law-enforcement and criminal justice agencies of all counties, cities and towns and all other agencies, departments, and institutions of the Commonwealth, other states and of the United States in order to develop and carry on a comprehensive uniform crime reporting program for the Commonwealth. Uniform crime reports for the Commonwealth shall be published by the Superintendent and distributed in an electronic format to the General Assembly and the office of the Governor, annually. The Superintendent shall publicize the availability of the reports to all law-enforcement agencies, attorneys for the Commonwealth, and the courts.1974, c. 577; 1979, c. 83; 2007, c. 135.
VA Code § 52-27 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 6 - Uniform Crime Reporting Program|§ 52-27. Aid to reporting agencies

The Department shall render all necessary aid and assistance to all reporting agencies in order to fulfill the requirements of the uniform crime reporting program for the Commonwealth.1974, c. 577.
VA Code § 52-28 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 6 - Uniform Crime Reporting Program|§ 52-28. Duty of Commonwealth and local agencies to make reports

All Commonwealth, county and municipal law-enforcement agencies shall submit to the Department all periodic uniform crime reports setting forth their activities in connection with law enforcement. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any police agency not paid entirely from public funds.1974, c. 577; 1979, c. 83.
VA Code § 52-28.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 6 - Uniform Crime Reporting Program|§ 52-28.1. Reporting of gang-related criminal information; inclusion in annual Crime in Virginia report

The Department of State Police shall include arrest statistics for violations of §§ 18.2-46.2, 18.2-46.3, 18.2-46.3:1, 18.2-46.3:3, and 18.2-55.1 in the annual Crime in Virginia report.2008, c. 746.
VA Code § 52-28.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 6 - Uniform Crime Reporting Program|§ 52-28.2. Reporting of officer-involved shootings; inclusion in annual Crime in Virginia report

The Department of State Police shall include any officer-involved shooting and whether such shooting was determined to be justified in the annual Crime in Virginia report. Any law-enforcement or public safety officer required to make such report shall receive training concerning such reporting requirement.For the purposes of this section, "officer-involved shooting" means the discharge of a firearm by a law-enforcement officer, as defined in § 9.1-101, that results in the death or serious bodily injury of another.2016, c. 333.
VA Code § 52-29 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 6 - Uniform Crime Reporting Program|§ 52-29. Rules and regulations for form, etc.

The Superintendent shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations prescribing the form, general content, time and manner of submission of such uniform crime reports of all offenses designated by him, including, but not limited to, part I and part II offenses as set out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.1974, c. 577.
VA Code § 52-30 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 6 - Uniform Crime Reporting Program|§ 52-30. Reports to Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Department shall correlate reports submitted to it and shall compile and submit reports to the Federal Bureau of Investigation on behalf of all agencies of the Commonwealth, as may be required by the federal standards for the uniform crime reporting program.1974, c. 577.
VA Code § 52-30.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 6.1 - Virginia Community Policing Act|§ 52-30.1. Definition

For purposes of this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning, "bias-based profiling" means actions of a law-enforcement officer that are based solely on the real or perceived race, ethnicity, age, gender, or any combination thereof, or other noncriminal characteristics of an individual, except when such characteristics are used in combination with other identifying factors in seeking to apprehend a suspect who matches a specific description.2020, c. 1165.
VA Code § 52-30.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 6.1 - Virginia Community Policing Act|§ 52-30.2. Prohibited practices; collection of data

A. No State Police officer shall engage in bias-based profiling in the performance of his official duties.B. State Police officers shall collect data pertaining to (i) all investigatory motor vehicle stops, (ii) all stop-and-frisks of a person based on reasonable suspicion, and (iii) all other investigatory detentions that do not result in an arrest or the issuance of a summons to be reported into the Community Policing Reporting Database. State Police officers shall submit the data to their commanding officers, who shall forward it to the Superintendent of State Police.C. Each time a law-enforcement officer or State Police officer stops a driver of a motor vehicle, stops and frisks a person based on reasonable suspicion, or temporarily detains a person during any other investigatory stop, such officer shall collect the following data based on the officer's observation or information provided to the officer by the driver: (i) the race, ethnicity, age, gender of the person stopped, and whether the person stopped spoke English; (ii) the reason for the stop; (iii) the location of the stop; (iv) whether a warning, written citation, or summons was issued or whether any person was arrested; (v) if a warning, written citation, or summons was issued or an arrest was made, the warning provided, violation charged, or crime charged; (vi) whether the vehicle or any person was searched; and (vii) whether the law-enforcement officer or State Police officer used physical force against any person and whether any person used physical force against any officers.D. Each state and local law-enforcement agency shall collect the number of complaints the agency receives alleging the use of excessive force.2020, c. 1165; 2020, Sp. Sess. I, c. 37.
VA Code § 52-30.3 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 6.1 - Virginia Community Policing Act|§ 52-30.3. Community Policing Reporting Database established

A. The Department of State Police shall develop and implement a uniform statewide database to collect all records of investigatory motor vehicle stops, all stop-and-frisks of a person based on reasonable suspicion, and other investigatory detentions that do not result in an arrest or the issuance of a summons, records of complaints alleging the use of excessive force, and data and information submitted by law-enforcement agencies pursuant to §§ 15.2-1609.10, 15.2-1722.1, and 52-30.2. The Department of State Police shall provide the Department of Criminal Justice Services with secure remote access to the database for the purposes of analyzing such data as required by subsection A of § 9.1-192.B. The Department of State Police shall promulgate regulations governing the operation and maintenance of the database.2020, c. 1165; 2020 Sp. Sess. I, c. 37.
VA Code § 52-30.4 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 6.1 - Virginia Community Policing Act|§ 52-30.4. Reporting of state and local law-enforcement agencies required

All state and local law-enforcement agencies shall collect the data specified in subsections C and D of § 52-30.2, and any other data as may be specified by the Department of State Police, on forms developed by the Department of State Police and submit such data to the Department of State Police for inclusion in the Community Policing Reporting Database.2020, c. 1165; 2020, Sp. Sess. I, c. 37.
VA Code § 52-31 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 7 - Missing Children Information Clearinghouse|§ 52-31. Missing Children Information Clearinghouse established

The Superintendent shall establish, organize, equip, staff and maintain within the Department of State Police a Missing Children Information Clearinghouse as a central repository of information regarding missing children. Such information shall be collected, processed, maintained and disseminated by the Clearinghouse as accurately and completely as possible to assist in the location of missing children.1985, c. 259.
VA Code § 52-31.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 7 - Missing Children Information Clearinghouse|§ 52-31.1. Superintendent to establish network

The Superintendent of State Police shall establish a network to implement reports of the disappearance of children by local law-enforcement agencies to local school division superintendents and the State Registrar of Vital Records. The network shall be designed to establish cooperative arrangements between local law-enforcement agencies and local school divisions concerning reports of missing children, whereby law enforcement shall within 24 hours or the next business day, notify the principal of the school where the missing child is or was most recently enrolled and inform the school official of the report, and notices to law-enforcement agencies of requests for copies of the cumulative records and birth certificates of missing children. Upon notification of a request for a marked school record or other information regarding a missing child, the Superintendent shall immediately initiate an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the request, including a search for any record that may exist showing who has legal custody of the child and for any record that may disclose an allegation of child abuse perpetrated against a member of the child's family. The network shall also establish a mechanism for reporting the identities of all missing children to the State Registrar of Vital Records.1990, c. 295; 2006, c. 295.
VA Code § 52-32 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 7 - Missing Children Information Clearinghouse|§ 52-32. Definitions

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise or it is otherwise specifically provided:"Missing child" means any person who is under the age of 21 years, whose temporary or permanent residence is in Virginia, or is believed to be in Virginia, whose whereabouts are unknown to any parent, guardian, legal custodian or other person standing in loco parentis of the child, and who has been reported as missing to a law-enforcement agency within the Commonwealth."Missing child report" means a report prepared in a format prescribed by the Superintendent for use by law-enforcement agencies to report missing child information to the Missing Children Information Clearinghouse.1985, c. 259; 1986, c. 330; 2004, c. 248.
VA Code § 52-33 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 7 - Missing Children Information Clearinghouse|§ 52-33. Powers and duties of Clearinghouse

The Clearinghouse shall have the following powers and duties:1. To maintain a centralized file for the exchange of information on missing children within the Commonwealth. The Clearinghouse shall accept a missing child report from any law-enforcement officer as defined in § 9.1-101. Any parent, guardian, legal custodian or other person standing in loco parentis of a missing child may contact the Clearinghouse to verify the entry of a missing child report on such child. If the Clearinghouse is requested to verify a missing child report which has not been received, the Clearinghouse shall immediately contact the appropriate law-enforcement agency and take such measures as may be necessary to determine whether a report should be entered in the centralized file.2. To maintain a system of intrastate communication to receive information relating to the disappearance or sighting of missing children. Such system shall be available twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week.3. To maintain close liaison with the National Crime Information Center and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for the exchange of information on children suspected of interstate or international travel and for assistance in the operation of the Clearinghouse.4. To circulate a monthly bulletin on missing children to the news media, all law-enforcement agencies, and every school in the Commonwealth.5. To provide emergency flyers containing physical and situational descriptions of missing children when requested by law-enforcement agencies.6. To provide for training of public and private organizations regarding the operation of the Clearinghouse.7. To provide assistance to law-enforcement agencies in planning and implementing programs to fingerprint children.1985, c. 259; 2011, cc. 818, 852.
VA Code § 52-34 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 7 - Missing Children Information Clearinghouse|§ 52-34. Notification required when missing child located

Any law-enforcement officer who has reported a missing child to the Clearinghouse shall notify the Clearinghouse immediately upon determining the location of the child.1985, c. 259.
VA Code § 52-34.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 7.1 - Virginia Amber Alert Program|§ 52-34.1. Definitions

As used in this chapter:"Abducted child" means a child (i) whose whereabouts are unknown, (ii) who is believed to have been abducted, (iii) who is 17 years of age or younger or is currently enrolled in a secondary school in the Commonwealth, regardless of age, and (iv) whose disappearance poses a credible threat as determined by law enforcement to the safety and health of the child and under such other circumstances as deemed appropriate by the Virginia State Police."Amber Agreement" means the voluntary agreement between law-enforcement officials and members of the media whereby a child will be declared abducted, and the public will be notified, and includes all other incidental conditions of the partnership as found appropriate by the Virginia State Police."Amber Alert" means the notice of child abduction provided to the public by the media or other methods under an Amber Agreement."Amber Alert Program" or "Program" means the procedures and Amber Agreements to aid in the identification and location of abducted children."Media" means print, radio, television, and Internet-based communication systems or other methods of communicating information to the public.2003, cc. 83, 86; 2007, c. 198.
VA Code § 52-34.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 52 - Police (State)|Chapter 7.1 - Virginia Amber Alert Program|§ 52-34.2. Establishment of the Virginia Amber Alert Program

The Virginia State Police shall develop policies for the establishment of uniform standards for the creation of Amber Alert Programs throughout the Commonwealth. Amber Alert Programs may be local, regional, or statewide. They may include multiple localities or regions and may be expanded or compressed. The Virginia State Police may (i) inform local law-enforcement officials of the policies and procedures for the Amber Alert Programs set by the State Police; (ii) assist in determining the geographic scope of a particular Amber Alert; and (iii) establish procedures and standards by which a local law-enforcement agency may verify a child has been abducted and report such information to the Virginia State Police.The establishment of an Amber Alert Program by a locality and the media is voluntary and nothing in this chapter shall be construed to be a mandate that local officials or the media establish or participate in an Amber Alert Program. Existing Amber Agreements and Programs shall not be altered by the act of assembly creating this chapter.2003, cc. 83, 86.