§ 3.1-50. (Repealed effective October 1, 2008) Grant of powers
The authority is hereby authorized and empowered:
(a) To lease, purchase, construct, maintain, repair and operate the market within or without the corporate limits of such city or county upon lands owned or leased by the authority;
(b) To issue bonds of the authority, and to refund its bonds, all as provided in this article;
(c) To borrow money in anticipation of the issuance of bonds, for any of its purposes, and to issue notes, certificates or other evidence of such borrowing in such form as may be authorized by resolution of the authority, such notes, certificates or other evidence of such borrowing to be payable in the first instance from the proceeds of any bonds issued under the provisions of this article and to contain on their face a statement to the effect that neither the Commonwealth, the authority nor such city or county shall be obligated to pay the same or the interest thereon except from the proceeds of bonds in anticipation of the issuance of which such notes, certificates, or other evidences of borrowing shall have been issued, or from revenues of the operation of the market, and that neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of the Commonwealth or of such city or county is pledged to the payment of the principal of or the interest on such bonds, and such notes, certificates or other evidences of borrowing may be sold in such manner, either at public or negotiated sale and for such price as the authority may determine;
(d) To fix and revise from time to time and charge and collect tolls, fees, rents, and other charges for the use of the market and its facilities or any part thereof;
(e) To establish rules and regulations for the use of the market or any part thereof;
(f) To acquire, hold and dispose of real and personal property in the exercise of its powers and the performance of its duties;
(g) To make and enter into all contracts and agreements necessary or incidental to the performance of its duties and the execution of its powers under this article;
(h) To employ, in its discretion, consulting engineers, attorneys, accountants, construction and financial experts, superintendents and managers, and to employ graders and classifiers under the federal-State inspection service and such other employees and agents as may be necessary in its judgment for the construction, maintenance and operation of the market, and to fix their compensation;
(i) To receive and accept from the federal government, the Commonwealth, or such city or county, or from any agency or instrumentality thereof, or from any person, firm or corporation, gifts and grants for any of the purposes of the authority, and to receive and accept aid or contributions from any other source of either money, property, labor or other things of value, to be held, used and applied only for the purposes for which such grants and contributions may be made;
(j) To enter upon any lands or premises for the purpose of making such surveys, borings and examinations as the authority may deem necessary or convenient for its purposes, and such entry shall not be deemed a trespass, nor shall an entry for such purposes be deemed an entry under any condemnation proceedings; provided, however, the authority shall pay any actual damage resulting to such lands or premises as a result of such entry and activities as a part of the cost of the market;
(k) To sue and to be sued; to have a seal and to alter the same at its pleasure, and to make and from time to time amend and repeal bylaws, rules and regulations not inconsistent with law to carry into effect the powers and purposes of the authority;
(l) To lease the market facilities or any of them, or to grant privileges for the use thereof to farmers, wholesale dealers and other persons engaged primarily in the wholesale marketing of perishable farm produce, whether in buying or selling in consideration of the payment of such tolls, fees, rents or other charges, and upon such terms and conditions as the authority may prescribe or as may be agreed upon by the authority and such farmers, dealers and other persons;
(m) To provide upon the market premises a building or facilities suitable and adequate for the operation of a restaurant and such other services as may be necessary to accommodate the requirements of persons buying and selling such produce and of persons employed at the market, and to lease such building or facilities to a responsible operator upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the authority and such operator;
(n) To provide upon the market premises such sanitary facilities and parking space as may be necessary to accommodate the requirements of persons transacting business at the market and of persons employed thereat;
(o) To prescribe and designate reasonable grades and classes for the various kinds of perishable farm produce sold at the market, which grades and classes shall conform to those established pursuant to the laws of the Commonwealth, the United States of America or ordinances of such city or county whenever they or any of them are applicable;
(p) To permit the selling and buying of food products other than perishable farm produce at the market only as a function incident to the operation of the market;
(q) To do all other acts and things necessary or convenient to carry out the powers expressly granted in this article.
(Code 1950, § 3-79.4; 1954, c. 407; 1966, c. 702.)
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