ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
H. B. 2075
(By Delegate Love)
[Passed April 10, 1993; in effect ninety days from passage.]
AN ACT to amend and reenact section sixteen, article fourteen-b,
chapter seven of the code of West Virginia, one thousand
nine hundred thirty-one, as amended; and to amend and
reenact section nine, article ten, chapter sixty-two of said
code, all relating to correctional officers generally;
defining the qualifications and duties of correctional
officers; reducing the retraining requirements of
correctional officers; and authorizing correctional officers
to execute warrants when the person named in the warrant
surrenders to the correctional officer.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section sixteen, article fourteen-b, chapter seven of
the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one,
as amended, be amended and reenacted; and that section nine,
article ten, chapter sixty-two of said code be amended and
reenacted, all to read as follows:
CHAPTER 7. COUNTY COMMISSIONS AND OFFICERS.
ARTICLE 14B. CIVIL SERVICE FOR CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS.
§7-14B-16. Training and retraining programs for all correctional
officers required.
(a) The civil service commission of any such county shall
establish or prescribe a training program which every
correctional officer first appointed a correctional officer of
such county on or after the effective date of this article must
satisfactorily complete during his probationary period.
(b) The civil service commission of any such county shall
also establish or prescribe retraining programs of at least
sixteen hours which every correctional officer, whether such
correctional officer was first appointed before or after the
effective date of this article, must satisfactorily complete
annually after the effective date of this article, in order to
continue as a correctional officer of such county.
CHAPTER 62. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
ARTICLE 10. PREVENTION OF CRIME.
§62-10-9. Power and authority of sheriffs and deputy sheriffs
to make arrests.
Sheriffs and each of their deputies are hereby authorized
and empowered within their respective counties to make arrests
for any crime for which a warrant has been issued in violation of
any laws of the United States or of this state, and to make
arrests without warrant for all violations of any of the criminal
laws of the United States, or of this state, when committed in
their presence. A county correctional officer may execute a
warrant, issued for the arrest of a person, only when the person
named in the warrant voluntarily surrenders to the correctional
officer at the county jail at which the correctional officer isemployed.