Bill Text: VA HB59 | 2024 | Regular Session | Prefiled
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-Prefiled.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.