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2023 SESSION
23101433DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 27-6.01, 27-8, and 27-10 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 27-6.01. Definitions.
For the purposes of this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
"Fire company" means a volunteer firefighting or firefighter support
organization organized pursuant to § 27-8 in any county, city, or town of the
Commonwealth for the purpose of fighting
extinguishing fires or for the
provision of rehabilitation and other support services for firefighters and similar
fire safety personnel.
"Fire department" means a firefighting organization established as a department of government of any county, city, or town pursuant to § 27-6.1.
§ 27-8. Who may form a fire company; limit on number of persons in combined companies.
Any number of persons, not less than 20, may form themselves
into a fire company for extinguishing fires.
In any county in which two or more fire
companies for extinguishing fires join together
and singly use one fire station, the number of persons in the combined
companies shall be not less than 20.
§ 27-10. Dissolution of fire company.
Whenever the fire department of the county, city, or town to
which any fire company belongs ascertains that such company has failed, for
three months successively, to consist of 20 effective members, or ascertains
that it such fire company
has failed for the like period to have or keep in good and serviceable
condition an engine hose or other support apparatus and
equipment and other proper implements, or the governing body of the county,
city, or town for any reason deems it advisable, such governing body may
dissolve the fire company.