                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL AND EQUIPMENT MAY IN EMERGENCIES GO OR BE
SENT BEYOND TERRITORIAL LIMITS (§ 32.1-111.4:4)

Whenever the necessity arises during any actual or potential emergency resulting
from fire, personal injury, or other public disaster, the emergency medical
services personnel 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 by such fire or emergency medical services
personnel 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 emergency medical services personnel 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.
		Emergency medical services personnel 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: 2015, cc. 502, 503.