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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?061+ful+CHAP0658\">658<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":158973,"object_type":"law","relational_id":59384,"identifier":"15.2-5340.2","token":"15.2\/IV\/53\/2\/15.2-5340.2","url":"\/15.2-5340.2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-5340.2\/","token":"15.2\/IV\/53\/2\/15.2-5340.2","dublin_core":{"Title":"Insurance","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-5340.2","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>An <span class=\"dictionary\">authority<\/span> shall have the power to procure such insurance, participate in such insurance plans or provide such self-insurance, or any combination thereof, as it deems necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes and provisions of this chapter. 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The purchase of insurance, participation in an insurance plan, or\ncreation of a self-insurance plan by an authority shall not be deemed a waiver\nor relinquishment of any sovereign immunity to which the authority or its\ncommissioners, members, officers, directors, employees, or agents are otherwise\nentitled.\n\nHISTORY: 2006, c. 658.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}