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2011 Code of Virginia
Title 27 FIRE PROTECTION.
Chapter 2 Fire/EMS Departments and Fire/EMS Companies (27-6 thru 27-24)
27-8 Who may form a fire/EMS company; limit on number of persons in combined companies


VA Code § 27-8 (2001 through Reg Session) What's This?

27-8. Who may form a fire/EMS company; limit on number of persons in combined companies.

Any number of persons, not less than twenty, may form themselves into a company for extinguishing fires or for performing emergency medical services, or both. In any county in which two or more companies for extinguishing fires or for performing emergency medical services shall join together and singly use one fire/EMS station, the number of persons in the combined companies shall be not less than twenty. The minimum number of persons required by this section shall only apply to the formation of a fire company.

(Code 1919, 3121; 1946, p. 110; 1970, c. 187; 2001, c. 142.)

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