                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FLAG AT HALF STAFF OR MAST FOR CERTAIN PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL KILLED IN THE
LINE OF DUTY (§ 18.2-488.1)

A. As used in this section, unless the context requires a different meaning:
			&#8220;Emergency medical services provider&#8221; means the same as that term
is defined in &#xA7; 32.1-111.1 and any member of a volunteer emergency medical
services agency.			&#8220;Firefighter&#8221; means the same as that term is
defined in &#xA7; 9.1-300, and any member of a volunteer fire
department.			&#8220;Police officer&#8221; means any full-time or part-time
employee of a police department or sheriff&#8217;s office which is a part of or
administered by the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof and who is
responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the enforcement of the
penal, traffic, or highway laws of the Commonwealth and a state correctional
officer of the Department of Corrections.			&#8220;Service member&#8221; means a
member of the United States armed forces, Virginia National Guard, or Virginia
Defense Force.

B. Whenever a service member, police officer, firefighter, or emergency medical
services provider who is a resident of Virginia is killed in the line of duty,
all flags, state and local, flown at any building owned and operated by the
Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof shall be flown at half staff
or mast for one day to honor and acknowledge respect for those who made the
supreme sacrifice.

C. The Department of General Services shall develop procedures to effectuate the
purposes of this section.

HISTORY: 2012, c. 767; 2015, cc. 502, 503; 2017, c. 344.