Bill Text: VA HB59 | 2024 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Virginia Regional Industrial Facilities Act; Planning Districts 13 and 14.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-03-28 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0167) [HB59 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2024-HB59-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §15.2-6402 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§15.2-6402. Procedure for creation of authorities.
The governing bodies of any two or more localities within the
region, provided that at least two or more of the localities are cities or
counties or a combination thereof, may, in conformance with the procedure set
forth herein, create a regional industrial facility authority by adopting
ordinances proposing to create an authority which shall (i) set forth the name
of the proposed regional industrial facility authority (which shall include the
words "industrial facility authority"); (ii) name the member localities;
(iii) contain findings that the economic growth and development of the locality
and the comfort, convenience and welfare of its citizens require the
development of facilities and that joint action through a regional industrial
facility authority by the localities which are to be members of the proposed
authority will facilitate the development of the needed facilities; and (iv)
authorize the execution of an agreement establishing the respective rights and
obligations of the member localities with respect to the authority consistent
with the provisions of this chapter. However, with regard to Planning Districts
2, 3, 10, 11 and, 12, 13, and 14, the governing bodies of
any two or more localities within the region, provided that one or more of the
localities is a city or county, may adopt such an ordinance. Such ordinances
shall be filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Upon certification by
the Secretary of the Commonwealth that the ordinances required by this chapter
have been filed and, upon the basis of the facts set forth therein, satisfy
such requirements, the proposed authority shall be and constitute an authority
for all of the purposes of this chapter, to be known and designated by the name
stated in the ordinances. Upon the issuance of such certificate, the authority
shall be deemed to have been lawfully and properly created and established and
authorized to exercise its powers under this chapter. Each authority created
pursuant to this chapter is hereby created as a political subdivision of the
Commonwealth. At any time subsequent to the creation of an authority under this
chapter, the membership of the authority may, with the approval of the
authority's board, be expanded to include any locality within the region that
would have been eligible to be an initial member of the authority. The
governing body of a locality seeking to become a member of an existing
authority shall evidence its intent to become a member by adopting an ordinance
proposing to join the authority that conforms, to the extent applicable, to the
requirements for an ordinance set forth in clauses (i), (iii), and (iv) of
this section.
