Bill Text: VA SB9 | 2024 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Orange County; authorization to establish department of real estate assessment, etc.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-04-05 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0570) [SB9 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2024-SB9-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §58.1-3274 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§58.1-3274. Establishment of department of real estate assessment; joint departments.
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, Goochland,
Powhatan, James City and Accomack, Goochland, James City, Orange, and
Powhatan Counties may, by resolution duly adopted, establish departments of
real estate assessment. Any such department shall assess all real estate within
such county on an annual or biennial basis as authorized by §58.1-3270,
and transfer such assessment to the commissioner of the revenue of such county.
Prior to transferring the final assessment to the commissioner of the revenue,
the department shall give any real property owner whose property has been
assessed an opportunity to be heard.
The department shall consist of such members as the governing body of such county shall deem necessary.
The compensation and terms of office of department members shall be fixed by the governing body.
B. Upon establishment of a department of real estate
assessment, James City, Orange, and Powhatan Counties may, by resolution
duly adopted, enter into an agreement with any contiguous county or city for
the establishment of a joint department of real estate assessment. The joint
department shall assess all real estate within such localities on an annual or
biennial basis and transfer such assessment to the commissioner of the revenue
pursuant to subsection A of this section. The membership, compensation,
terms of office, and office expenses of such members of the joint
department shall be fixed by agreement by the governing body of James City County,
Orange, or Powhatan County and such county or city with which it may
establish a joint department of real estate assessment.
