                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

INSTALLATION OF IN-BUILDING EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT FOR EMERGENCY
PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL (§ 36-99.6:2)

The Board of Housing and Community Development shall promulgate regulations as
part of the Building Code requiring such new commercial, industrial, and
multifamily buildings as determined by the Board be (i) designed and constructed
so that emergency public safety personnel may send and receive emergency
communications from within those structures or (ii) equipped with emergency
communications equipment so that emergency public safety personnel may send and
receive emergency communications from within those structures.

For the purposes of this section:

&#8220;Emergency communications equipment&#8221; includes, but is not limited
to, two-way radio communications, signal boosters, bi-directional amplifiers,
radiating cable systems or internal multiple antenna, or any combination of the
foregoing.

&#8220;Emergency public safety personnel&#8221; includes firefighters, emergency
medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, and other emergency public
safety personnel routinely called upon to provide emergency assistance to
members of the public in a wide variety of emergency situations, including, but
not limited to, fires, medical emergencies, violent crimes, and terrorist
attacks.

HISTORY: 2003, c. 611.