9.1-168 - Eligibility for funds.
§ 9.1-168. Eligibility for funds.
A. Any city, county, or town establishing a police department shall providethe Department written notice of its intent to seek state funds in accordancewith the provisions of this article. Such city, county, or town shall becomeeligible to receive funds at the beginning of the next fiscal year whichcommences not sooner than twelve months after the filing of this notice.
B. No city, county, or town shall receive any funds in accordance with theterms of this article unless it notifies the Department prior to July 1 eachyear that its law-enforcement personnel, whether full-time or part-time andwhether permanently or temporarily employed, have complied with the minimumtraining standards as provided in §§ 9.1-102 and 9.1-114, unless suchpersonnel are exempt from the minimum training standards as provided in §§9.1-113 and 9.1-116 or that an effort will be made to have itslaw-enforcement personnel comply with such minimum training standards duringthe ensuing fiscal year. Any city, county, or town failing to make an effortto comply with the minimum training standards may be declared ineligible forfunding in the succeeding fiscal year by the Department.
C. A change in the form of government from city to tier-city shall notpreclude the successor tier-city which continues to provide a policedepartment from eligibility for funds.
D. Any county consolidated under the provisions of Chapter 35 (§ 15.2-3500 etseq.) of Title 15.2 shall be eligible to receive financial assistance forlaw-enforcement expenditures subject to the provisions of this article. Theconsolidated county shall be eligible to receive, on behalf of the formerlyincorporated towns that became shires, boroughs or special service taxdistricts within the consolidated county, law-enforcement assistance underthe provisions of this article, provided that the consolidation agreementapproved pursuant to Chapter 35 (§ 15.2-3500 et seq.) of Title 15.2 providesfor the additional law-enforcement governmental services previously providedby the police department of such incorporated towns.
(1981, c. 485, § 14.1-84.6:1; 1982, c. 600; 1983, c. 4, § 14.1-84.6:2; 1984,cc. 695, 779; 1998, c. 872, §§ 9-183.19, 9-183.20; 2001, c. 844.)