                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ESTABLISHMENT OF AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES AGENCY AS A NONGOVERNMENTAL
ENTITY; DISSOLUTION (§ 32.1-111.4:7)

A. Any number of persons wishing to provide emergency medical services may
establish an emergency medical services agency by (i) recording a writing
stating the formation of such company, with the names of the members thereof
thereto subscribed in the court of the county or city wherein such agency shall
be located, (ii) complying with such local ordinances as may exist related to
establishment of an emergency medical services agency, and (iii) obtaining a
valid emergency medical services agency license from the Office of Emergency
Medical Services together with such emergency medical services vehicle permits
from the Office of Emergency Medical Services as the Office of Emergency Medical
Services may require. The principal officer of such emergency medical services
agency shall be known as &#8220;the emergency medical services agency
chief&#8221; or &#8220;EMS chief.&#8221;

B. The members of an emergency medical services agency established pursuant to
subsection A may make regulations for effecting its objects consistent with the
laws of the Commonwealth; the ordinances of the county, city, or town; and the
bylaws of the emergency medical services agency thereof.

C. In every county, city, or town in which an emergency medical services agency
is established pursuant to this section, there shall be appointed, at such time
and in such manner as the governing body of such county, city, or town in which
the emergency medical services agency is located may prescribe, an emergency
medical services agency chief and as many other officers of the emergency
medical services agency as such governing body may direct.

D. An emergency medical services agency established pursuant to this section may
be dissolved when the local governing body of the county, city, or town in which
the emergency medical services agency is located determines that the emergency
medical services agency has failed, for three months successively, to have or
keep in good and serviceable condition emergency medical services vehicles and
equipment and other proper implements, or when the governing body of the county,
city, or town for any reason deems it advisable.

E. Upon dissolution of an emergency medical services agency established pursuant
to this section, any property that was in the possession of such emergency
medical services agency and that was purchased using public funds shall be
offered to a city or county served by the emergency medical services agency to
be used for the public good.

HISTORY: 2015, cc. 502, 503; 2020, c. 946.