2010 Code of Virginia
Title 27 - FIRE PROTECTION.
Chapter 1 - General Provisions (27-1 thru 27-5.5)
27-2.1 - Contracts for fire protection or emergency medical services for federal and state property.

§ 27-2.1. Contracts for fire protection or emergency medical services for federal and state property.

Any county, city or town may contract with the federal or state governments to provide fire or emergency medical 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 or emergency medical services 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 fire fighters or emergency medical technicians 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 fire fighters or emergency medical technicians 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' 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.

(1980, c. 729; 1995, c. 461.)