27-3 - Contract of county with city or another county for fire protection; emergency medical services. - Virginia Statutes

§ 27-3. Contract of county with city or another county for fire protection;emergency medical services.

The governing body of any county adjoining or near any city, town, or county,within or without the Commonwealth, including the District of Columbia,having and maintaining fire-fighting or emergency medical services equipmentmay contract with any such city, town, or county, upon such terms as suchgoverning body may deem proper, for fighting fires or responding to medicalemergencies in such county, town, or city and may prescribe the terms andconditions upon which such services may be provided on privately ownedproperty in the county, town, or city and may raise funds with which to payfor such services, by levying and collecting annually, at such rates as suchgoverning body may deem sufficient, a special tax upon the property in suchcounty, or in any magisterial district thereof, subject to local taxation.

(Code 1919, § 2743; 1942, p. 118; 1966, c. 134; 1995, c. 461.)