The Legislature finds and declares that citizens, state employees and visitors who park, attend functions, conduct business or work at the capitol complex and other state facilities should be safe and secure. The Legislature further finds and declares that it is in the public interest to establish a division within the Department of Military Affairs […]
(a) The state facilities protection division within the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety shall hereafter be designated the Division of Protective Services. The purpose of the division is to provide safety and security at the capitol complex and other state facilities: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting the […]
(a) The director is responsible for the control and supervision of the division. The director and any officer of the division specified by the director may carry designated weapons and have the same powers of arrest and law enforcement in Kanawha County as members of the West Virginia State Police as set forth in §15-2-12(b) […]
(a) The director and each member of the division shall take and subscribe to an oath of office in conformity with article IV, section five of the Constitution of the State of West Virginia. (b) Any member serving on the effective date of this article shall take and subscribe to the oath within thirty days […]
(a) The provisions of this article shall not apply to the West Virginia Senate, the West Virginia House of Delegates, the West Virginia Legislature or the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, or to any part of the capitol complex under the supervision or control of the West Virginia Senate, the West Virginia House of […]
There is hereby created in the state Treasury a special revenue fund designated the "security enforcement fund." The money of the fund shall be made available for investment under the provisions of article six, chapter twelve of this code. The fund shall consist of all gifts, grants, bequests, transfers, appropriations or other donations which may […]
(a) Upon the retirement of a member of the Division of Protective Services, including the Director of the Division of Protective Services and Deputy Director of the Division of Protective Services, the Division of Protective Services shall award to the retiring member his or her service weapon, without charge, upon determining: (1) That the member […]
