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§ 65.2-301.1 Public safety officers

In situations where weather constitutes a particular risk of a public safety officer’s employment and where the public safety officer’s injury arose out of and in the course of his employment, absent a misconduct defense asserted pursuant to § 65.2-306, such injury shall be compensable under this title. As used in this section, “public safety officer” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in § 9.1-801.

History

This law was first created in 2013. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 174 and 458 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.

2013, cc. 174, 458.

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