Code of Virginia - Title 62.1 Waters Of The State, Ports And Harbors - Chapter 10 Virginia Port Authority

62.1-128 Authority created
The Virginia Port Authority, hereinafter referred to as the Authority, is created as a body corporate and as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth. The ...
62.1-129 Board of Commissioners; members and officers; Executive Director; agents and employees
All powers, rights and duties conferred by this chapter, or other provisions of law, upon the Authority shall be exercised by the Board of Commissioners ...
62.1-129.1 Employees; employment; personnel rules; health insurance; retirement plans
A. Employees of the Authority shall be employed on such terms and conditions as established by the Authority. The Board of Commissioners of the Authority ...
62.1-129.2 Trust for postemployment benefits authorized; administration.
A. The Authority is hereby authorized to establish and maintain a trust or equivalent arrangement for the purpose of accumulating and investing assets to fund ...
62.1-130 Powers and duties of Executive Director
The Executive Director shall employ or retain such other agents or employees subordinate to the Executive Director as may be necessary, subject to the Board's ...
62.1-131 Office and branch offices; title to property
The Authority shall, in the Hampton Roads Area, have and maintain its principal office, at which all of its records shall be kept, and from ...
62.1-132 Local authorities subordinate to Authority
Any conflict between any authority granted to the several port cities and towns or other entities of this Commonwealth, or the exercise of that authority, ...
62.1-132.1 General powers
The Authority is vested with the powers of a body corporate, including, without limitation, to: 1. Sue and be sued; 2. Make contracts; 3. Adopt ...
62.1-132.2 Bylaws and organization
The Authority shall have the power to adopt, alter, and repeal bylaws, rules, and regulations governing the manner in which its business shall be transacted ...
62.1-132.3 Stimulation of commerce
It shall be the duty of the Authority, on behalf of the Commonwealth, to foster and stimulate the commerce of the ports of the Commonwealth, ...
62.1-132.4 Rates and rate structures
The Authority shall have power to establish a traffic bureau or other office to investigate and seek improvement in any rates, rate structures, practices, and ...
62.1-132.5 Planning
The Authority shall initiate and further plans for the development of the ports of the Commonwealth, and, to this end, shall keep informed as to ...
62.1-132.6 Powers not restrictive; exemptions from Public Procurement Act and the Virginia Personnel Ac...
A. The Authority shall have the power to perform any act or carry out any function not inconsistent with state law, whether included in the ...
62.1-132.7 Employment of personnel and legal counsel
A. The Authority may appoint, employ, dismiss, and fix and pay compensation to employees, officers, agents, advisers, and consultants, including financial and technical advisers, engineers, ...
62.1-132.8 Consolidation of terminal operations
The Authority shall effect consolidation of the water terminals of the several cities within the ports of the Commonwealth. It, specifically, shall bring about the ...
62.1-132.9 Foreign trade zones
The Authority is empowered to develop, maintain, and operate foreign trade zones under such terms and conditions as are or may be prescribed by law. ...
62.1-132.10 Publications of Authority
A. The Authority may issue periodicals and carry and charge for advertising therein. B. The Authority may compile and disseminate in a single publication all ...
62.1-132.11 Police powers; penalties
The Authority is empowered to adopt and enforce reasonable rules and regulations governing (i) the maximum and minimum speed limits of motor vehicles using Authority ...
62.1-132.11:1 Prevention and suppression of fire
The Authority may take such steps as necessary, not inconsistent with other provisions of law, to prevent and suppress fires on the waters of Hampton ...
62.1-132.11:2 Maritime Incident Response Advisory Board established; duties; composition; appointment; term...
The Maritime Incident Response Advisory Board is hereby established and is hereafter referred to as the Board. The purpose of the Board shall be to ...
62.1-132.12 Employment, jurisdiction, and power of special police officers
A. The Authority may appoint and employ special police officers to enforce the laws of the Commonwealth and rules and regulations adopted pursuant to § ...
62.1-132.12:1 Agreements with private terminal operators.
The Authority may enter into agreements with private maritime cargo terminal operators that require services comparable to services provided by the Authority to permit special ...
62.1-132.13 Cooperation with federal agencies
The Authority is empowered to cooperate with, and to act as an agent for, the United States of America or any agency, department, corporation or ...
62.1-132.14 Agreement of local cooperation with Corps of Engineers
The Authority, in addition to such other state agencies as the Governor may designate, is empowered, on behalf of and as an agent for the ...
62.1-132.15 Grants and loans from federal agencies
The Authority may apply for and accept grants or loans of money or property from any federal agency for any purpose authorized in this chapter. ...
62.1-132.16 Fees and charges
Under such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by law, the Authority may fix, alter, charge, and collect tolls, fees, rentals, and any other ...
62.1-132.17 Grants of funds and property
Persons, counties, cities, and towns are hereby authorized to grant, and the Authority is empowered to accept, funds and property to use, within the scope ...
62.1-132.18 Acquisition of property
A. The Authority is authorized to acquire, construct, maintain, equip, and operate marine terminals, port facilities, wharves, docks, ships, piers, quays, elevators, compressors, refrigeration storage ...
62.1-132.19 Acquisition and lease of property
A. The Authority is empowered to rent, lease, buy, own, acquire, construct, reconstruct, and dispose of harbors, seaports, port facilities, and such property, whether real ...
62.1-132.20 Craney Island Disposal Area
A. No agency of the Commonwealth, including the Virginia Port Authority, shall have the authority to expand the Craney Island Disposal Area northward or westward ...
62.1-133 , 62.1-134
Repealed by Acts 1981, c. 589. ...
62.1-134.1 Expediting shipment of coal
A. The Authority shall analyze the shipment of coal through the ports of the Commonwealth for the purpose of expediting such shipments. For this purpose, ...
62.1-135 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 1981, c. 589. ...
62.1-136 Power of eminent domain
The Authority is hereby vested with the power of eminent domain to acquire property or any interest therein, however held, but not property of the ...
62.1-137 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 1981, c. 589. ...
62.1-138 Powers of State Corporation Commission not affected
Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as affecting the powers and duties now conferred by law upon the State Corporation Commission. (Code 1950, ...
62.1-139 Forms of accounts and records; annual report
The accounts and records of the Authority showing the receipt and disbursement of funds from whatever source derived, shall be in such form as the ...
62.1-140 Definitions; bond resolution; form and requisites of bonds; sale and disposition of proceeds; tempo...
A. As used in this section and in §§ 62.1-141 through 62.1-146, the term "port facility" means harbors, seaports and all facilities used in connection ...
62.1-141 Trust agreement securing bonds; provisions of agreement or bond resolution; depository of proceeds ...
In the discretion of the Authority any bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter may be secured by a trust agreement by and between ...
62.1-142 Charges for use of port facilities; sinking fund created from revenues for payment of bond...
The Authority is hereby authorized to fix and revise charges for the use of the port facilities under its control and the different parts or ...
62.1-143 Proceeds of bonds and revenues held in trust for certain purposes
All moneys received pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, whether as proceeds from the sale of revenue bonds or refunding bonds or as revenues, ...
62.1-144 Remedies of bondholders and trustee
Any holder of bonds, notes, certificates or other evidences of borrowing issued under the provisions of this chapter or of any of the coupons appertaining ...
62.1-145 Exercise of powers constitutes governmental functions; exemption from taxation
The exercise of the powers granted by this chapter shall be in all respects for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Commonwealth, for the ...
62.1-146 Bonds as legal investments
Bonds issued by the Authority under the provisions of this chapter are hereby made securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the ...
62.1-147 Bonds not debt or pledge of credit of Commonwealth or political subdivision; payment of expense...
Bonds and refunding bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed to constitute a debt of the Commonwealth or of any ...
62.1-147.1 Legalization of prior actions
Any bonds issued to refund bonds or other obligations of the Authority prior to the adoption of the amendments in this chapter relating to refunding ...
62.1-147.2 Chapter liberally construed
This chapter shall constitute full and complete authority for the doing of the acts and things herein authorized and shall be liberally construed to effect ...

Last modified: April 3, 2009