Title 15.2, Counties, Cities and Towns

An authority shall have power to appoint such committees or subcommittees as it deems advisable and fix their duties and responsibilities.

An authority shall have power to do all things necessary in connection with the construction, improvement, alteration, repair, reconstruction, management, supervision, control and operation of its business, including but not limited to the hospitals and all departments thereof.

An authority shall have power to accept donations of money, personal property or real estate for the benefit of the authority and take title thereto from any person desiring to make such donations.

An authority shall have power to determine and regulate the conditions under which the privilege of practicing within any hospital operated by the authority may be available to physicians, to promulgate reasonable rules governing the conduct of physicians and nurses while on duty…

An authority shall have power to make rules governing the admission of patients to, and the care, conduct, and treatment of patients in, any hospital operated by the authority; to determine whether patients presented to the hospital for treatment are subjects for charity, to fix …

An authority shall have power to take over by purchase, lease or otherwise any hospital project located within its boundaries undertaken by any government or by any city.

An authority shall have power to act as agent for the federal government in connection with the acquisition, construction, operation and management of a hospital project or any part thereof.

An authority shall have power: 1. To arrange with any city or with a government for the (i) furnishing, planning, replanning, installing, opening or closing of streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks, or other places or facilities, (ii) acquisition by such city or government …

An authority shall have power to purchase, lease, obtain options upon, acquire by gift, grant, bequest, devise, or otherwise any property real or personal or any interest therein from any person, locality or government. An authority shall have power to sell, exchange, transfer, o…

An authority shall have power to own, hold, clear and improve property and to insure or provide for the insurance of the property or operations of the authority against such risks as the authority may deem advisable.

An authority shall have power to borrow money upon its bonds, notes, debentures, or other evidences of indebtedness and to secure the same by pledges of its revenues in the manner and to the extent hereinafter provided and, in connection with any loan by a government, to agree to…

An authority shall have power to make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers of the authority.

An authority shall have the power to: 1. Assist in or provide for the creation of domestic or foreign stock and nonstock corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, limited partnerships, associations, foundations or other supporting organizations or other entities an…

An authority shall have the power to procure such insurance, participate in such insurance plans or provide such self-insurance, or any combination thereof, as it deems necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes and provisions of this chapter. The purchase of insurance, pa…

An authority shall have power to make and from time to time amend and repeal bylaws, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this chapter, to carry into effect the powers and purposes of the authority.

An authority shall have power, in addition to all of the other powers herein conferred upon it, to do all things necessary and convenient to carry out the powers expressly given in this chapter.

The authority shall have the right to acquire by eminent domain any real property, including fixtures and improvements, which it may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter after the adoption by it of a resolution declaring that the acquisition of the property de…

The authority is empowered to borrow money and accept grants from the federal government for or in aid of the construction of any hospital project which such authority is authorized by this chapter to undertake, to take over any land acquired by the federal government for the con…

The authority may by resolution provide that all moneys deposited by it shall be secured: 1. By obligations of the United States or of the Commonwealth of a market value equal at all times to the amount of such deposits; 2. By any securities in which trustees, guardians, executor…

The authority shall have power and is hereby authorized from time to time in its discretion to issue bonds for any of its purposes, including the payment of all or any part of the cost of any hospital project and the refunding of any bonds previously issued by it. Bonds may be is…

The principal and interest on such bonds shall be payable from such sources as the authority may determine, including (without limiting the generality of the foregoing) (i) its revenues generally, (ii) exclusively from the revenues and receipts of a particular hospital project, o…

Neither the commissioners of the authority nor any person executing the bonds shall be liable personally on the bonds by reason of the issuance thereof.

The bonds and other obligations of the authority, and such bonds and obligations shall so state on their face, shall not be a debt of any city in which the authority is located or of the Commonwealth, and neither the Commonwealth nor any such city shall be liable thereon. In no e…

The bonds of the authority shall be authorized by its resolution and shall be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, not exceeding sixty years from their respective dates, bear interest at such rate or rates payable at such t…

The bonds may be sold at public or private sale at such price or prices as the authority determines.

Pending the authorization, preparation, execution or delivery of definitive bonds, the authority may issue interim certificates, or other temporary obligations, to the purchaser of such bonds. Such interim certificates, or other temporary obligations, shall be in such form, conta…

If any of the officers whose signatures appear on any bonds or coupons cease to be such officers before the delivery of the bonds, their signatures shall be valid and sufficient for all purposes as if they had remained in office until such delivery.

The authority shall have the power out of any funds available therefor to purchase any bonds issued by it. Bonds payable exclusively from the revenues of a designated project or projects shall only be purchased with the revenues available therefor. All bonds so purchased shall be…

Any provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bonds, interim certificates, or other obligations issued pursuant to this chapter shall be fully negotiable.

In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of any obligations and in order to secure the payment of such bonds or obligations, the authority shall have power: 1. To pledge by resolution, trust indenture, or other contract, all or any part of its rents, fees, or rev…

In the discretion of the authority, any bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter may be secured by a trust indenture by and between the authority and a corporate trustee or trustees, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within the C…

The authority is hereby authorized to fix, revise, charge and collect fees, rents and other charges for the use of any project and the facilities thereof. Such fees, rents and other charges shall be so fixed and adjusted as to provide, together with other revenues determined by t…

All moneys received pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds or as revenues, shall be deemed to be trust funds to be held and applied solely as provided in this chapter. Any officer with whom, or any bank or trust company with which, …

Any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter, or of any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under any trust indenture securing the same, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by such trust indenture or any resolution au…

The exercise of the powers granted by this chapter shall be in all respects for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Commonwealth and for the promotion of their safety, health, welfare, convenience and prosperity. The operation and maintenance of any hospital project which the a…

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 Commonwealth and all its political subdivisions, all insurance companies, trust companies, banking associations, investment companie…

The foregoing sections of this chapter shall be deemed to provide a complete, additional and alternative method for doing the things authorized thereby and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws; the issuance of revenue bonds and revenu…

This chapter, being necessary for the welfare of the Commonwealth and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes hereof.

Whenever it appears to the commissioners of an authority that the need, as provided in § 15.2-5305, for such authority in the city in which it was created no longer exists, upon petition by the commissioners to the circuit court for such city, after giving to the city ten days' n…

If the court enters an order, as provided in § 15.2-5365, that the need for such authority no longer exists, except for completing its affairs in accordance with the plan approved by the court, its authorities, powers and duties to transact business or to function shall cease to …

The authority or the city may take an appeal from the judgment of the court to the Court of Appeals, and the appeal shall be heard and determined without reference to the principles of demurrer to evidence. The trial court shall certify the facts in the case to the Court of Appea…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Electric Authorities Act."

It is the intent of the General Assembly by the passage of this chapter to authorize the creation of electric authorities by localities of this Commonwealth, either acting jointly or separately, in order to provide facilities for the generation, transmission, and distribution of …

Wherever used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly appears in the context: "Authority" means a political subdivision and a body politic and corporate created, organized and existing pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, or if the authority is abolished, the b…

The governing body of a governmental unit may by ordinance, or the governing bodies of two or more governmental units may by concurrent ordinances or agreement authorized by ordinance of each of the respective governmental units, create an electric authority, under any appropriat…

Each ordinance or agreement providing for the creation of an authority shall include articles of incorporation which shall set forth: 1. The name of the authority and the address of its principal office; 2. The names of the governmental units which are to be the initial members o…