                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES OWNED AND USED BY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTS OR
VOLUNTEER, COMMERCIAL, OR PRIVATE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES AGENCIES (§
46.2-649.1:1)

Upon application therefor, the Commissioner shall register and issue permanent
license plates without year or month decals for display on any (i) firefighting
truck, trailer, and semitrailer on which firefighting apparatus is permanently
attached when any such vehicle is owned or under exclusive control of a
volunteer fire department; (ii) emergency medical services vehicle or other
vehicle owned or used exclusively by a volunteer fire department or volunteer
emergency medical services agency if any such vehicle is used exclusively as an
emergency medical services vehicle and is not rented, leased, or lent to any
private individual, firm, or corporation, and no charge is made by the
organization for the use of the vehicle; or (iii) emergency medical services
vehicle owned or under exclusive control of a commercial or privately owned
emergency medical services agency, as defined in § 32.1-111.1, if any such
vehicle is not rented, leased, or lent to any private individual, firm, or
corporation that is not another emergency medical services agency. The equipment
shall be painted a distinguishing color and conspicuously display in letters and
figures not less than three inches in height the identity of the emergency
medical services agency, volunteer fire department, or volunteer emergency
medical services agency having control of its operation.
		No fee shall be charged for any vehicle registration or license plate issuance
under clause (i) or (ii). The fees charged for vehicle registration under clause
(iii) shall be as provided in § 46.2-694.

HISTORY: 1999, c. 329; 2015, cc. 502, 503; 2016, cc. 125, 133.