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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>57014</law_id><section_number>51.1-1203</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="51.1">Pensions, Benefits, and Retirement</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="12">Volunteer Firefighters' and Rescue Squad Workers' Service Award Fund</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>For purposes of this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Creditable service</span>&#x201D; means service as an <span class="dictionary">eligible volunteer</span> plus any service credited pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Determination of prior creditable service; information furnished by applicants for membership" href="/51.1-1207/">51.1-1207</a>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Eligible volunteer</span>&#x201D; means any volunteer emergency medical services personnel or any volunteer firefighter who is a <span class="dictionary">member</span> of a bona fide volunteer emergency medical services agency or volunteer fire department and who is otherwise eligible pursuant to the criteria established by the Board.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Member</span>&#x201D; means an <span class="dictionary">eligible volunteer</span>.</p></section></text><history>1999, cc. 664, 860; 2002, c. 349; 2015, cc. 502, 503.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
