CODE OF VIRGINIA

PRESERVATION OF ORDER AT ELECTIONS (§ 24.2-606)

The officers of election, with the consent of the chief law-enforcement officer
for the county or city, may designate a law-enforcement officer who shall attend
at the polling place and preserve order inside and outside the polling place. 
If no law-enforcement officer is in attendance, the officers of election may
appoint, in writing, one or more persons specially, who shall have all the
powers of a law-enforcement officer in the polling place and within the
prohibited area prescribed by § 24.2-604.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 24-189; 1970, c. 462, § 24.1-103; 1993, c. 641.