                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LIABILITY FOR FAILURE TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE SECURITY OR CROWD CONTROL (§
15.2-1130)

The Cities of Chesapeake and Portsmouth may provide by ordinance that any person
who has negligently failed to provide adequate security or crowd control at a
sporting event, restaurant, night club, or other business or commercial activity
that draws large crowds of people may be liable in a separate civil action for
the cost associated with any emergency response by the law-enforcement agency or
emergency medical services personnel of such city caused by the sponsor, owner,
or tenant of any sporting event, restaurant, night club, or other business or
commercial establishment who negligently failed to provide adequate security or
crowd control. Such person shall be liable to the city in an amount not to
exceed $1,000.

HISTORY: 1995, cc. 291, 408, § 15.1-132.2; 1997, c. 587; 2000, cc. 829, 840;
2019, c. 632.