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The code of the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, 1945 :

the charter of the city and the general ordinances of the city ; enacted as a whole April 16, 1945, effective May 1, 1945
  
  
  
  
  

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Sec. 16. Conservators of the peace.

Each councilman, and the police justice[8] of said city, for the
time being, are declared to be, and are hereby, constituted conservators
of the peace within said city, and within one mile from
the corporate limits thereof, and shall have all the powers and
authority, in civil, as well as in criminal cases, as justices of the
peace. And the chief of police and the policemen of the city
shall also be conservators of the peace within the limits aforesaid,
and all proper arrests may be made and warrants of arrest
executed by such chief of police and policemen.

 
[8]

The office of "police justice" is now the office of "civil and police
justice."