27-8 - Who may form a fire/EMS company; limit on number of persons in combined companies. - Virginia Statutes

§ 27-8. Who may form a fire/EMS company; limit on number of persons incombined companies.

Any number of persons, not less than twenty, may form themselves into acompany for extinguishing fires or for performing emergency medical services,or both. In any county in which two or more companies for extinguishing firesor for performing emergency medical services shall join together and singlyuse one fire/EMS station, the number of persons in the combined companiesshall be not less than twenty. The minimum number of persons required by thissection shall only apply to the formation of a fire company.

(Code 1919, § 3121; 1946, p. 110; 1970, c. 187; 2001, c. 142.)