15.2-1609.6 - Agreements regarding traveling expenses.
§ 15.2-1609.6. Agreements regarding traveling expenses.
Notwithstanding the provisions of § 15.2-1609.5, the governing body of anycounty or city may, with the approval of the Compensation Board, enter intosuch agreement with the sheriff of such county or city with respect to thetraveling expenses, including the use of privately owned vehicles, of suchsheriff and his deputies as the governing body may deem proper. With theconsent of the Compensation Board, in any county having a regular policeforce authorized by law and in which the jail of another county or city hasbeen adopted as the jail of such county, the police officers, in place of thesheriff, who transport any persons charged with violation of a state lawunder order of the judge of the circuit court of such county to the jail soadopted, shall receive the same mileage as the sheriff would have receivedhad he transported such persons. Any such police officer transporting anysuch person shall make claim for mileage on the same forms the sheriff usesfor such claims and in the same manner. When any such mileage is collected byany police officer, he shall pay the same into the county treasury and thepayment of such mileage shall be made in the manner provided for the paymentof mileage to sheriffs.
(Code 1950, § 14-89; 1964, c. 386, § 14.1-77; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 155; 1998,c. 872.)