                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN TOWING (§ 46.2-1231.1)

No towing and recovery operator shall be liable for damages in any civil action
for responding in good faith to the lawful direction of a law-enforcement or, in
the case that life, limb, or property is endangered, a fire or rescue agency to
tow, recover, or store any vehicle, combination of vehicles, their contents, or
any other object. The immunity provided by this section shall not extend to the
liability for negligence in the towing, recovery, or storage carried out by the
towing and recovery operator. For the purposes of this section, any towing,
recovery, or storage carried out in compliance with a contract between a towing
business and a local law-enforcement agency or local government shall be deemed
to have been performed at the lawful direction of a law-enforcement agency.

HISTORY: 1990, c. 604; 2007, c. 376.