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A BILL to amend and reenact Section 15.2-1705, as it is currently effective and as it shall become effective, of the Code of Virginia, relating to law-enforcement officers,minimum qualifications.

Relates to law-enforcement officers,relates to minimum qualifications,modifies the existing minimum qualification for law-enforcement officers that prohibits any such officer from entering upon the duties of such office if he has been convicted of or pled guilty or no contest to any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, including petit larceny, by providing that the prohibition applies only if such conviction or plea has occurred within the last three years.