Bill Text: VA HB1088 | 2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Capital Region Airport Commission; updates police power provisions of Commission.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-04-06 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0672) [HB1088 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2014-HB1088-Chaptered.html

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CHAPTER 672 An Act to amend and reenact §10 and §15, as amended, of Chapter 380 of the Acts of Assembly of 1980, relating to the Capital Region Airport Commission. [H 1088] Approved April 6, 2014

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §10 and §15, as amended, of Chapter 380 of the Acts of Assembly of 1980 are amended and reenacted as follows:

§10. Police powers.

The Commission's employees meeting the minimum requirements of the Criminal Justice Officers Training Standards Commission shall be given special police power by the circuit court of any participating political subdivision. The authority conferred upon such special policemen shall be exercised only upon the Commission's facilities located within such participating political subdivision, and shall be in all terms consistent with the requirements of Chapter 3 of Title 15.1 of the Code of Virginia.

Such special policemen shall have all powers vested in police officers under Chapter 3 of Title 15.1 of the Code of Virginia and shall be responsible upon the Commission's facilities for enforcing the Commission's rules and regulations and all other applicable statutes, ordinances, rules, and regulations of the United States of America and agencies and instrumentalities thereof and this Commonwealth and political subdivisions, agencies, and instrumentalities thereof.

The Commission may exercise full law-enforcement powers upon all property owned, operated, managed, leased, or maintained by or under the control of the Commission; establish and maintain a police department; and employ police officers to enforce the laws of the Commonwealth and all rules and regulations of the Commission. The Commission's police force and its police officers shall have all the powers vested in local police forces and police officers under Virginia law. Any person appointed and employed as a Commission police officer pursuant to this section must meet the training requirements established by the Department of Criminal Justice Services under §9.1-102 and the requirements of §9.1-114.

Such special policemen police officers may issue summons to appear, or arrest on view or on information without warrant as permitted by law, and conduct before any court of competent jurisdiction any person violating any rule or regulation of the Commission or other applicable statute, ordinance, rule, or regulation.

For the purpose of enforcing such statutes, ordinances, rules, and regulations, the court or courts having jurisdiction for the trial of criminal offenses of the participating political subdivision wherein the offense was committed shall have jurisdiction to try a person charged with the violating of any such statutes, ordinances, rules, and regulations.

§15. Authority to issue bonds.

The Commission shall have power and is hereby authorized to issue bonds from time to time in its discretion for any of its purposes, including the payment of all or any part of the cost of any of its facilities and the refunding of any bonds previously issued by it.

The Commission shall not issue bonds unless and until the maximum amount of such issue and the general purposes thereof have been approved by the governing body of each participating political subdivision. Subject to the foregoing, bonds Bonds may be issued under this act notwithstanding any debt or other limitation prescribed in any statute and without obtaining the consent of any city, town, or county government or any commission, board, bureau, or agency of the Commonwealth or of any of the foregoing, and without any other proceedings or the happening of other conditions or things than those proceedings, conditions or things which are specifically required by this act.

The Commission may issue such types of bonds as it may determine, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, bonds payable as to principal and interest: (i) from its revenues generally; (ii) exclusively from the income and revenues of a particular project; or (iii) exclusively from the income and revenues of certain designated projects, whether or not they are financed in whole or in part from the proceeds of such bonds. Any such bonds may be additionally secured by a pledge of any grant or contribution from a participating political subdivision, the Commonwealth or any political subdivision, agency or instrumentality thereof, any federal agency or any unit, private corporation, copartnership, association, or individual, as such participating political subdivision, or other entities may be authorized to make under general law or by a pledge of any income or revenues of the Commission, or where such mortgage has been approved by the participating political subdivisions, a mortgage of any facilities of the Commission.

Bonds of the Commission shall be authorized by resolution and may be issued in one or more series, may be dated, may mature at such time or times not exceeding forty years from their date or dates, may be subject to redemption or repurchase at such price or prices and under such terms and conditions, and may contain such other provisions, all as determined by the Commission before their issuance or in such manner as the Commission may provide. The bonds may bear interest at such rate or rates as may be determined by the Commission or in such manner as the Commission may provide, including the determination by reference to indices or formulas or by agents designated by the Commission under guidelines established by it. The Commission shall determine the form of the bonds, including any interest coupons to be attached thereto, and the manner of execution of the bonds, and shall fix the denomination or denominations of the bonds and the place or places of payment of principal and interest, which may be at any bank or trust company within or without the Commonwealth. In case any officer whose signature or a facsimile of whose signature shall appear on any bonds or coupons shall cease to be such officer before delivery of such bonds, such signature or such facsimile shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes the same as if he had remained in office until such delivery. Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this act or any recitals in any bonds issued under the provisions of this act, all such bonds shall be deemed to be negotiable instruments under the laws of the Commonwealth. The bonds may be issued in coupon or registered form or both, as the Commission may determine, and provision may be made for the registration of any coupon bonds as to principal alone and also as to both principal and interest, and for the conversion and reconversion into coupon bonds of any bonds registered as to both principal and interest and vice versa. The Commission may sell such bonds in such manner, either at public or private sale, and for such price, as it may determine to be for the best interests of the Commission.

Prior to the preparation of definitive bonds, the Commission may, under like restrictions, issue interim receipts or temporary bonds, with or without coupons, exchangeable for definitive bonds when such bonds shall have been executed and are available for delivery.