                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FIREFIGHTERS AND EQUIPMENT MAY IN EMERGENCIES GO OR BE SENT BEYOND TERRITORIAL
LIMITS (§ 27-1)

Whenever the necessity arises during any actual or potential emergency resulting
from fire, personal injury, or other public disaster, the firefighters of any
county, city, or town may, together with all necessary equipment, lawfully go or
be sent beyond the territorial limits of such county, city, or town to any point
within or without the Commonwealth, to assist in meeting such emergency.
		In such event, the acts performed for such purpose by such firefighters and
the expenditures made for such purpose by such county, city, or town shall be
deemed conclusively to be for a public and governmental purpose and all of the
immunities from liability enjoyed by a county, city, or town when acting through
its firefighters for a public or governmental purpose within its territorial
limits shall be enjoyed by it to the same extent when such county, city, or town
is so acting, under this section or under other lawful authority, beyond its
territorial limits.
		The firefighters of any county, city, or town, when acting hereunder, or under
other lawful authority, beyond the territorial limits of such county, city, or
town, shall have all the immunities from liability and exemptions from laws,
ordinances, and regulations, and shall have all of the pension, relief,
disability, workers&#8217; compensation, and other benefits, enjoyed by them
while performing their respective duties.

HISTORY: 1942, p. 376; Michie Code 1942, § 3032c; 1966, c. 134; 1977, c. 326;
1995, c. 461; 2015, cc. 502, 503.