Bill Text: VA HB25 | 2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Firefighting equipment or emergency medical services vehicle; penalty for tampering with, etc.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-04-01 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0687) [HB25 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2016-HB25-Chaptered.html

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CHAPTER 687 An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 18.2-151.1, relating to tampering, etc., with firefighting equipment; penalty. [H 25] Approved April 1, 2016

 

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 (i) any equipment or apparatus used for fighting fires or for protecting property or human life by a fire company or fire department, as those terms are defined in §27-6.01, or (ii) any emergency medical services vehicle, as defined in §32.1-111.1, intending to temporarily or permanently prevent the useful operation of such equipment or apparatus is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.