Chap. 331.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly ap-
proved April 11, 1927, entitled an act to provide for the relief of volunteer
firemen killed or injured while engaged in fighting fires or in going to or re-
turning therefrom in Arlington county and the city of Alexandria.

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Approved March 21, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That financial
relief shall be extended by the county of Arlington and the city of
Alexandria to volunteer firemen who are killed or injured while en-
gaged in fighting fire, while responding to an alarm or returning from
the scene of a fire, such relief to be paid in amounts and manner
as hereinafter set forth. ,

2. Definition of the term volunteer fireman.—For the purposes of
this act the term volunteer fireman shall include only members of any
organized fire fighting company which has in its possession and operates
fire fighting apparatus and equipment, whose members serve without
pay and whose names have been duly certified by the secretary of such
company as active members thereof to the clerk of the circuit court
of said county or corporation court of said city. The respective clerks
shall keep a complete and accurate record of all names so certified in a
book provided by the governing body of said county and city. Names
shall be added to or stricken from said record upon the certificate of
the secretary of any such company that such action has been decided
by his organization in due form.

3. Should any volunteer fireman be killed while actually engaged
in fighting fire, or while going to a fire in answer to an alarm or return-
ing therefrom, the board of supervisors of the county or the council
of the city, in which his company is located, shall pay to his personal
representative for the benefit of his estate the sum of thirty-five hun-
dred dollars.

4. Should any volunteer fireman be injured under circumstances
set forth in section three hereof, so as to be totally and permanently
disabled from making a livelihood he shall be paid in like manner the
sum of fifty dollars per week for seventy wecks.

5. Should a volunteer fireman be injured under circumstances set
forth in section three hereof, so as to be prevented from attending
to his usual occupation for a period greater than two weeks (but not
permanently and totally disabled), he shall be paid in like manner the
sum of twenty-five dollars per week until able to return to his usual
occupation, provided, however, that said payments shall not continue
in any event for a period greater than forty weeks. In the event that
any such volunteer fireman be injured as hereinbefore set forth so as
to be prevented from attending to his usual occupation for a period of
less than two weeks, he shall be paid in like manner the sum of two
dollars and fifty cents per day until he is able to return to his usual
occupation.

6. In addition to the relief set forth in sections three, four and five,
all necessary hospital charges and all necessary and proper medical,
surgical, laboratory and operating room charges for any volunteer
fireman arising out of any injury set forth in sections three, four and
five, shall be paid by said county or city.

7. All funds necessary to carry out the provisions of this act shall
be raised by general taxation upon all property within said county or
city subject to taxation for local purposes.

8. Any disputed question of fact arising under the operation of this
act shall be triable before the board of supervisors of such county or
city council having jurisdiction of the company involved and from the
decision of said board or council both the petitioner and the county or
city, as the case may be, shall have an appeal of right to the circuit
court of said county or the corporation court of said city, such appeal
on behalf of the county or city to be taken by the attorney for the
Commonwealth or corporation counsel who shall prosecute the same
in the trial court. ,