                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ORDINANCES AS TO FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND FIRE COMPANIES (§ 27-14)

A. The governing body of any county, city, or town in which a fire department or
fire company is established may make such ordinances in relation to the powers
and duties of such fire departments or fire companies, and chiefs and other
officers of such fire departments or fire companies, as it may deem proper,
including billing property owners on behalf of volunteer fire departments as
provided in &#xA7; 38.2-2130 and billing on behalf of volunteer fire departments
for the support of a licensed emergency medical services agency, as defined in
&#xA7; 32.1-111.1.

B. The ordinances shall not require a minor who achieved certification under
National Fire Protection Association 1001, level one, firefighter standards, as
administered by the Department of Fire Programs, on or before January 1, 2006,
between the ages of 15 and 16, to repeat the certification after his sixteenth
birthday.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 3127; 1970, c. 187; 2001, c. 142; 2006, c. 462; 2008, c.
410; 2013, cc. 356, 616; 2015, cc. 502, 503; 2024, c. 823.