                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONTRACTS FOR FIRE PROTECTION FOR FEDERAL AND STATE PROPERTY (§ 27-2.1)

Any county, city, or town may contract with the federal or state government to
provide fire service to federal or state property located within or without the
boundaries of the county, city, or town.
		In the absence of a written contract, any acts performed and all expenditures
made by a county, city, or town in providing fire protection to property owned
by the federal government 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 or without its territorial limits shall be enjoyed
by it to the same extent when such county, city, or town is so acting, under the
provisions of this section, or under other lawful authority.
		The firefighters of any county, city, or town when acting hereunder, or under
other lawful authority, shall have all of 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.
		The amount of compensation to the county, city, or town pursuant to the
contract shall be a matter within the sole discretion of the governing body of
the county, city, or town.

HISTORY: 1980, c. 729; 1995, c. 461; 2015, cc. 502, 503.