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2016 SESSION

16100160D
HOUSE BILL NO. 25
Offered January 13, 2016
Prefiled November 17, 2015
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 18.2-151.1, relating to tampering, etc., with firefighting equipment; penalty.
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Patron-- Habeeb
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Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 18.2-151.1 as follows:

§ 18.2-151.1. Injuring, destroying, removing, or tampering with firefighting equipment; penalty.

Any person who injures, destroys, removes, tampers with, or otherwise interferes with the operation of any equipment or apparatus used for fighting fires and for protecting property and human life by a fire company or fire department, as those terms are defined in § 27-6.01, intending to temporarily or permanently prevent the useful operation of such equipment or apparatus is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.