Code of Virginia - Title 15.2 Counties, Cities And Towns - Chapter 51 Virginia Water And Waste Authorities Act

15.2-5100 Title of chapter
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Virginia Water and Waste Authorities Act." This chapter shall constitute full and complete authority, ...

15.2-5101 Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning: "Authority" means an authority created under the provisions of § 15.2-5102 or Article ...

15.2-5102 One or more localities may create authority
A. The governing body of a locality may by ordinance or resolution, or the governing bodies of two or more localities may by concurrent ordinances ...

15.2-5103 Ordinance, agreement or resolution creating authority to include articles of incorporatio...
A. The ordinance, agreement or resolution creating an authority shall include articles of incorporation which shall set forth: 1. The name of the authority and ...

15.2-5104 Advertisement of ordinance, agreement or resolution and notice of hearing
The governing body of each participating locality shall cause to be advertised at least one time in a newspaper of general circulation in such locality ...

15.2-5105 Hearing; referendum
If at the hearing, in the judgment of the governing body of the participating locality, substantial opposition is heard, the governing body may at its ...

15.2-5106 Voters' petition requesting agreement and referendum
The qualified voters of any locality whose governing body has not acted to create an authority under § 15.2-5102 may file with the governing body ...

15.2-5107 Filing articles of incorporation
After adoption or approval of an ordinance, resolution or agreement creating an authority, the governing bodies of the participating localities shall file with the State ...

15.2-5108 Issuance of certificate or charter
The State Corporation Commission shall issue a certificate of incorporation or charter to the authority if it finds that: 1. The articles of incorporation conform ...

15.2-5109 Dissolution of authority
Whenever the board of an authority determines that the purposes for which it was created have been completed or are impractical or impossible or that ...

15.2-5110 Amendment of articles of incorporation
The articles of incorporation of any authority created under the provisions of this chapter may be amended with respect to the name or powers of ...

15.2-5111 Specification of projects
If they have specified the initial purpose or purposes of the authority and insofar as practicable, any project or projects to be undertaken by the ...

15.2-5112 Joinder of another locality or authority; withdrawal from authority
A. Any locality may become a member of any existing authority, and any locality which is a member of an existing authority may withdraw therefrom ...

15.2-5113 Members of authority board; chief administrative or executive officer
A. The powers of each authority created by the governing body of a single locality shall be exercised by an authority board of five members, ...

15.2-5114 Powers of authority
Each authority is an instrumentality exercising public and essential governmental functions to provide for the public health and welfare, and each authority may: 1. Exist ...

15.2-5115 Same; contracts relating to use of systems
An authority may make and enter into all contracts or agreements, as the authority may determine, which are necessary or incidental to the performance of ...

15.2-5116 Same; effect of annexation
In the event of any annexation by a municipality not a member of the authority of lands, areas, or territory served by the authority, an ...

15.2-5117 Same; insurance for employees
An authority may establish retirement, group life insurance, and group accident and sickness insurance plans or systems for its employees in the same manner as ...

15.2-5118 Description unavailable
Not set out. (1997, c. 587.) ...

15.2-5119 Power to provide and operate electric energy systems
Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law in this chapter, an authority operating a water supply impoundment facility may, in connection with such facility, generate, produce, ...

15.2-5120 Description unavailable
Not set out. (1997, c. 587.) ...

15.2-5121 Operation of refuse collection systems; displacement of private companies
A. No authority shall operate or contract for the operation of a refuse collection and disposal system for any political subdivision, or collect service charges ...

15.2-5122 Approval for certain water supply impoundment facilities
No locality or authority shall construct, provide or operate outside its boundaries any water supply impoundment system without first obtaining the consent of the governing ...

15.2-5123 Sewage treatment plants to include certain capability
Whenever an authority is constructing a new sewage treatment plant, the facility shall be designed and constructed so that it has the capability to treat ...

15.2-5124 Delinquent payment of rates and charges
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if the use of any water or sewer system is contracted for by an occupant who is not ...

15.2-5125 Issuance of revenue bonds
An authority may provide by resolution for the issuance of revenue bonds of the authority for the purpose of paying the whole or any part ...

15.2-5126 Time for contesting validity of proposed bond issue; when bonds presumed valid
For a period of thirty days after the date of the filing with the circuit court having jurisdiction over any of the political subdivisions which ...

15.2-5127 Proceeds of bonds
The proceeds of bonds issued pursuant to § 15.2-5125 shall be used solely for the payment of the cost of the system or systems for ...

15.2-5128 Interim receipts and temporary bonds; bonds mutilated, lost or destroyed
Prior to the preparation of definitive bonds, the authority may, under like restrictions, issue interim receipts or temporary bonds, with or without coupons, exchangeable for ...

15.2-5129 Provisions of chapter only requirements for issue
Bonds may be issued under the provisions of this chapter without obtaining the approval or consent of any department, division, commission, board, bureau or agency ...

15.2-5130 Limitations in bond resolution or trust agreement
The resolution providing for the issuance of revenue bonds of the authority, and any trust agreement securing such bonds, may contain such limitations upon the ...

15.2-5131 Bonds not debts of Commonwealth or participating political subdivision
A. Revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter shall not constitute a pledge of the faith and credit of the Commonwealth or of ...

15.2-5132 Exemption from taxation
No authority shall be required to pay any taxes or assessments upon any stormwater control system or water or waste system acquired or constructed by ...

15.2-5133 Trust agreement; bond resolution
In the discretion of the authority, any revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter may be secured by a trust agreement by and ...

15.2-5134 Disposition of unclaimed funds due on matured bonds or coupons
Any authority having bonds outstanding on which principal, premium or interest has matured for a period of more than five years may pay any money ...

15.2-5135 Contracts concerning interest rates, currency, cash flow and other basis
A. Any authority may enter into any contract which the authority determines to be necessary or appropriate to place the obligation or investment of the ...

15.2-5136 Rates and charges
A. The authority may fix and revise rates, fees and other charges (which shall include, but not be limited to, a penalty not to exceed ...

15.2-5137 Water and sewer connections; exceptions
A. Upon the acquisition or construction of any water system or sewer system under the provisions of this chapter, the owner, tenant, or occupant of ...

15.2-5138 Enforcement of charges
Any resolution or trust agreement providing for the issuance of revenue bonds under the provisions of this chapter may include any of the following provisions, ...

15.2-5138.1 Enforcement of certain charges when authority does not provide water services.
A. This section shall apply only to an authority operating in Planning District 1 or Planning District 2. B. If any rates, fees or charges ...

15.2-5139 Lien for charges
A. There shall be a lien upon real estate for the amount of any fees, rents or other charges by an authority to the owner ...

15.2-5140 Trust funds
All moneys received pursuant to this chapter shall be deemed to be trust funds, to be held and applied solely as provided in this chapter. ...

15.2-5141 Bondholder's remedies
Any holder of revenue bonds issued by an authority under this chapter, or of any of the coupons appertaining thereto, except to the extent the ...

15.2-5142 Refunding bonds
An authority may provide by resolution for the issuance of revenue refunding bonds of the authority to refund any revenue bonds outstanding and issued under ...

15.2-5143 Purchase in open market or otherwise
Provision may be made in the proceedings authorizing refunding revenue bonds for the purchase of the refunded revenue bonds in the open market or pursuant ...

15.2-5144 Investment in bonds
Any bonds issued pursuant to this chapter are hereby made securities in which all public officers, bodies and political subdivisions of the Commonwealth; all insurance ...

15.2-5145 Financial report; authority budget; audit
Any locality may, by resolution, require an authority to: 1. Submit to it an annual financial statement in a form prescribed by the Auditor of ...

15.2-5146 Use of state land
The Commonwealth hereby consents to the use of all lands above or under water and owned or controlled by it which are necessary for the ...

15.2-5147 Powers of localities, etc., to make grants and conveyances to and contracts with authorit...
Each political subdivision may: 1. Convey or lease to any authority, with or without consideration, any water system or facility for the collection, treatment or ...

15.2-5148 Units may convey property
Any unit, notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, may transfer jurisdiction over or lease, lend, grant or convey to an authority, upon the request of ...

15.2-5149 Interference with railroad structures
Whenever any railroad tracks, pipes, poles, wires, conduits or other structures or facilities which are located in, along, across, over or under any public road, ...

15.2-5150 Creating or joining more than one authority
No governing body that is a member of an authority, shall create or join with any other governing body in the creation of another authority ...

15.2-5151 Water utilities may act as billing agents
Any public utility supplying water to the owners, lessees or tenants of real estate which is or will be served by any sewer or sewage ...

15.2-5152 Localities may consider petitions for creation of authority
A. Any city may consider petitions for the creation of community development authorities, a public body politic and corporate and political subdivision of the Commonwealth, ...

15.2-5153 Landowners may petition localities
The owners of at least 51 percent of the land area or assessed value of land in the following tracts may, by petitioning the locality ...

15.2-5154 Contents of petition
A petition for the creation of a community development authority shall: 1. Set forth the name and describe the boundaries of the proposed district; 2. ...

15.2-5155 Ordinance or resolution creating authority
A. Any locality authorized to consider petitions under this article may, by ordinance or resolution not inconsistent with the petition proposing the creation of the ...

15.2-5156 Hearing; notice
A. An ordinance or resolution creating a community development authority shall not be adopted or approved until a public hearing has been held by the ...

15.2-5157 Recording in land records
The local governing body, upon approving the resolution or ordinance creating the district, shall direct that a copy of the resolution or ordinance be recorded ...

15.2-5158 Additional powers of community development authorities
A. Each community development authority created under this article, in addition to the powers provided in Article 3 (§ 15.2-5110 et seq.) of Chapter 51 ...