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1995 SESSION
LD8594726Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 15.1-132.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 15.1-132.1. Reimbursement of expenses incurred in responding to DUI incidents.
Any city with a population of at least 100,000 but not more than 110,000
and any city with a population of 350,000 or greater may provide by
ordinance that any person who is convicted of a violation of §
18.2-266 or § 29.1-738, or a similar ordinance, when his operation of a motor
vehicle, engine, train or watercraft while so impaired is the proximate cause
of any accident or incident resulting in an appropriate emergency response,
may be liable in a separate civil action to the city or to any volunteer
rescue squad, or both, which may provide such emergency response for the
expenses thereof, in an amount not to exceed $1,000 in the aggregate for a
particular accident or incident occuring occurring in
such city. As used in this section, "appropriate emergency response" includes
all costs of providing law-enforcement, fire-fighting, rescue, and emergency
medical services. The provisions of this section shall not preempt or limit
any remedy available to the Commonwealth, to the city, or to any volunteer
rescue squad to recover the reasonable expenses of an emergency response to
an accident or incident not involving impaired driving or operation of a
vehicle as set forth herein.