Liability for failure to provide adequate security or crowd control
Va. Code Ann. § 15.2-1130
in effectThe Cities of Chesapeake and Portsmouth may provide by ordinance that any person who has negligently failed to provide adequate security or crowd control at a sporting event, restaurant, night club, or other business or commercial activity that draws large crowds of people may be liable in a separate civil action for the cost associated with any emergency response by the law-enforcement agency or emergency medical services personnel of such city caused by the sponsor, owner, or tenant of any sporting event, restaurant, night club, or other business or commercial establishment who negligently failed to provide adequate security or crowd control. Such person shall be liable to the city in an amount not to exceed $1,000.
1995, cc. 291 , 408 , § 15.1-132.2; 1997, c. 587 ; 2000, cc. 829 , 840 ; 2019, c. 632 .
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