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2013 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 27-14 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 27-14. Ordinances as to fire/EMS departments, etc.
A. Such governing body may make such ordinances in relation to the powers and duties of fire/EMS departments, companies, chiefs or directors and other officers as it may deem proper, including billing property owners on behalf of volunteer fire departments as provided in § 38.2-2130.
B. The ordinances shall not require a minor who achieved certification under National Fire Protection Association 1001, level one, firefighter standards, as administered by the Department of Fire Programs, on or before January 1, 2006, between the ages of 15 and 16, to repeat the certification after his sixteenth birthday.