                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FLAG AT HALF STAFF OR MAST FOR CERTAIN PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL KILLED IN THE
LINE OF DUTY (§ 18.2-488.1)

A. As used in this section, unless the context requires a different meaning:
			&#8220;Emergency medical services provider&#8221; means the same as that term
is defined in &#xA7; 32.1-111.1 and any member of a volunteer emergency medical
services agency.
			&#8220;Firefighter&#8221; means the same as that term is defined in &#xA7;
9.1-300, and any member of a volunteer fire department.
			&#8220;Police officer&#8221; means any full-time or part-time employee of a
police department or sheriff&#8217;s office which is a part of or administered
by the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof and who is responsible
for the prevention and detection of crime and the enforcement of the penal,
traffic, or highway laws of the Commonwealth and a state correctional officer of
the Department of Corrections.
			&#8220;Service member&#8221; means a member of the United States armed
forces, Virginia National Guard, or Virginia Defense Force.

B. Whenever a service member, police officer, firefighter, or emergency medical
services provider who is a resident of Virginia is killed in the line of duty,
all flags, state and local, flown at any building owned and operated by the
Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof shall be flown at half staff
or mast for one day to honor and acknowledge respect for those who made the
supreme sacrifice.

C. The Department of General Services shall develop procedures to effectuate the
purposes of this section.

HISTORY: 2012, c. 767; 2015, cc. 502, 503; 2017, c. 344.