CODE OF VIRGINIA

RESPONSIBILITIES OF DEPARTMENTS (§ 2.2-3603)

Each department utilizing the services of volunteers shall:

   1.  Take actions necessary and appropriate to develop meaningful opportunities
   for volunteers involved in its programs and to improve public services;

   2.  Develop written rules governing the recruitment, screening, training,
   responsibility, utilization and supervision of volunteers;

   3.  Take actions necessary to ensure that volunteers and paid staff understand
   their respective duties and responsibilities, their relationship to each
   other, and their respective roles in fulfilling the objectives of their
   department;

   4.  Take actions necessary and appropriate to ensure a receptive climate for
   citizen volunteers;

   5.  Provide for the recognition of volunteers who have offered exceptional
   service to the Commonwealth; and

   6.  Recognize prior volunteer service as partial fulfillment of state
   employment requirements for training and experience established by the
   Department of Human Resource Management.

HISTORY: 1977, c. 347, § 2.1-557; 1979, c. 107; 1991, c. 563; 2000, cc. 66,
657; 2001, c. 844.