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Sarah Ellis Peed v. Virginia Department of Transportation .\u202f.\u202f. ","case_number":"0767204","citation":null,"date":"2021-01-12","url":"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/opinion\/4846916\/sarah-ellis-peed-v-virginia-department-of-transportation-and-washington\/","abstract":" .\u202f.\u202f. COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA .\u202f.\u202f. 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 221 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1976 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 2014, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?141+ful+CHAP0805\">805<\/a>; in 2015, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?151+ful+CHAP0502\">502<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?151+ful+CHAP0503\">503<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1432159,"object_type":"law","relational_id":360146,"identifier":"33.2-262","token":"33.2\/I\/2\/4\/33.2-262","url":"\/33.2-262\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/33.2-262\/","token":"33.2\/I\/2\/4\/33.2-262","dublin_core":{"Title":"Removal of snow from driveways of volunteer fire departments and emergency medical services agencies","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 33.2-262","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>On the roads under the <span class=\"dictionary\">jurisdiction<\/span> of the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span>, the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> shall remove snow from the driveways and entrances of volunteer fire <span class=\"dictionary\">departments<\/span> and volunteer emergency medical services agencies when the chief of any individual volunteer fire <span class=\"dictionary\">department<\/span> or volunteer emergency medical services agency makes a written request for such snow removal service, provided that such service shall only be performed when such service can be performed during the normal course of snow removal activities of the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> without interfering with, or otherwise inconveniencing, such snow removal activities. 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Such service shall not extend to\nany parking lots adjacent to such driveways and entranceways not normally used\nby the volunteer fire department or volunteer emergency medical services agency\nas their direct driveway or entrance.\n\nHISTORY: 1976, c. 221, \u00a7 33.1-200.1; 2014, c. 805; 2015, cc. 502, 503.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}