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2007 SESSION

070068800
SENATE BILL NO. 1160
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the Senate Committee for Courts of Justice
on January 22, 2007)
(Patron Prior to Substitute--Senator Quayle)
A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-911 of the Code of Virginia, to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 9.1-401.1, relating to the Line of Duty Disability Fund.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 15.2-911 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted and that the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 9.1-401.1, as follows:

§ 9.1-401.1. Line of Duty Disability Fund.

There is hereby created in the Department of the Treasury a special nonreverting fund that shall be known as the Line of Duty Disability Fund (the Fund). The Fund shall consist of deposits pursuant to subsection C of § 15.2-911, and shall include such other funds as may be appropriated by the General Assembly from time to time and designated for the Fund and all interest, dividends, and appreciation that may accrue thereto. Any moneys remaining in the Fund at the end of any fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund but shall remain in the Fund. The Fund shall be used solely to pay the costs of the benefits provided pursuant to § 9.1-401.

§ 15.2-911. Regulation of alarm company operators.

A. Any locality may by ordinance regulate the installation and maintenance of alarm systems operated by alarm company operators.

B. As used in this section, an "alarm company operator" means and includes any business operated for profit, engaged in the installation, maintenance, alteration, or servicing of alarm systems or which responds to such alarm systems. Such term, however, shall not include alarm systems maintained by governmental agencies or departments, nor shall it include a business which merely sells from a fixed location or manufactures alarm systems unless such business services, installs, monitors or responds to alarm systems at the protected premises.

C. All alarm company operators shall collect a fee of $1 per month, for all alarm systems as described in subsection D, for each alarm system monitored. All moneys collected shall be sent to the Treasurer of Virginia to be applied to the Line of Duty Disability Fund, pursuant to Chapter 4 (§ 9.1-400 et seq.) of Title 9.1

CD. As used in this section, the term "alarm system" means an assembly of equipment and devices arranged to signal the presence of a hazard requiring urgent attention and to which police or firefighters are expected to respond. Such system may be installed, maintained, altered or serviced by an alarm company operator in both commercial and residential premises.