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1995 SESSION
LD7403726Be 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 county, city with a population of 350,000 or greater
or town 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 county, city or town 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 county, city or town. 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 county, city or town, 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.