An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1968 |
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Law Number | 800 |
Subjects |
Law Body
CHAPTER 800
An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-181 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to police and other officers going to other jurisdictions for emergency
purposes; to provide for reciprocal agreements with the governing
bodies of jurisdictions without the Commonwealth for such emer-
gency aid.
[S 447]
Approved April 5, 1968
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 15.1-1381 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:
§ 15.1-131. Police, etc., may be sent beyond territorial limits.—
Whenever the necessity arises during any emergency resulting from the
existence of a state of war, internal disorder, or fire, flood, epidemic or
other public disaster, the policemen and other officers, agents and em-
ployees of any county, city or town may, together with all necessary
equipment, lawfully go or be sent beyond the territorial limits of such
county, city or town to any point within or without the Commonwealth
to assist in meeting such emergency.
In such event the acts performed for such purpose by such policemen
or other officers, agents or employees and the expenditures made for such
purpose by such county, city or town shall be deemed conclusively to be
for a public and governmental purpose and all of the immunities from
liability enjoyed by a county, city or town when acting through its police-
men or other officers, agents or employees for a public or governmental
purpose within its territorial limits shall be enjoyed by it to the same
extent when such county, city or town within the Commonwealth is so
acting, under this section or under other lawful authority, beyond its
territorial limits.
The policemen and other officers, agents and employees of any county,
city or town, when acting hereunder or under other lawful authority be-
yond the territorial limits of such county, city or town shall have all of
the immunities from liability and exemptions from laws, ordinances and
regulations and shall have all of the pension, relief, disability, workmen’s
compensation and other benefits enjoyed by them while performing their
respective duties within the territorial limits of such county, city or town.
Subject to the approval of the Congress of the United States, the
governing body of any county, city or town, may in its discretion, enter
into reciprocal agreements for such periods as they deem advisable with
any county, city or town, within or without the Commonwealth, including
the District of Columbia, in order to establish and carry into effect a plan
to provide mutual aid through the furnishing of its police and other em-
ployees and agents together with all necessary equipment in the event of
an emergency as provided herein. No county, city or town, shall enter into
such agreement unless the agreement provides that each of the parties
to such agreement shall: (1) waive any and all claims against all the other
parties thereto which may arise out of their activities outside their re-
spective jurisdictions under such agreement; (2) indemnify and save
harmless the other parties to such agreement from all claims by third
parties for property damage or personal injury which may arise out of
the activities of the other parties to such agreement outside their re-
spective jurisdictions under such agreement.
The principal law enforcement officer, in any city, county or town
having a reciprocal agreement with a jurisdiction outside the Common-
wealth for police mutual aid under the provisions hereof, shall be re-
sponsible for directing the activities of all policemen and other officers
and agents coming into his jurisdiction under the reciprocal agree-
ment, and while operating under the terms of the reciprocal agreement,
the principal law enforcement officer is empowered to authorize all police-
men and other officers and agents from outside the Commonwealth to
enforce the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia to the same extent as
if they were duly authorized law enforcement officers of any city, county
or town in Virginia.
The governing body of any city, county or town in the Commonwealth
is authorized to procure or extend the necessary public liability insur-
ance to cover claims arising out of mutual aid agreements executed with
other cities, counties or towns outside the Commonwealth.
The policemen, and other officers, agents and employees of a county,
city or town serving in a jurisdiction outside the Commonwealth under
a reciprocal agreement entered into pursuant hereto are authorized to
carry out the duties and functions provided for in the agreement under
the command and supervision of the chief law enforcement officer of the
jurisdiction outside the Commonwealth.