2005 West Virginia Code - §31-20-27a. — Arrest authority of correctional officers.

§31-20-27a. Arrest authority of correctional officers.
(a) Persons employed by the regional jail authority as correctional officers are hereby authorized and empowered to make arrests of persons already charged with a violation of law who surrender themselves to such correctional officer and to arrest persons already in the custody of the regional jail authority for violations of law occurring in the officer's presence.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed as to make a correctional officer employed by the regional jail authority a law-enforcement officer as defined in section one, article twenty-nine, chapter thirty of this code.