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All sums appropriated to the Fund by the General Assembly, all sums allocated to the Commonwealth for resilience purposes through the federal government, all receipts by the Fund from loans made by it to local governments, all income from the investment of moneys held in the Fund, and any other sums designated for deposit to the Fund from any source public or private shall be designated for deposit to the Fund. The Fund shall be administered and managed by the Authority as prescribed in this article, subject to the right of the Department, following consultation with the Authority, the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources, and the Chief Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth, to direct the distribution of loans or grants from the Fund to particular local governments and to establish the interest rates and repayment terms of such loans as provided in this article. Additional weight shall be given to those projects that are located in a locality designated as having a very low community resilience rating under a standard adopted by the Department. A portion of the Fund shall be reserved to hold money that is allocated only for the hazard mitigation of buildings and that shall not be available for other uses. In order to carry out the administration and management of the Fund, the Authority is granted the power to employ officers, employees, agents, advisers, and consultants, including, without limitation, attorneys, financial advisers, engineers, and other technical advisers and public accountants and, the provisions of any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, to determine their duties and compensation without the approval of any other agency or instrumentality. The Authority may disburse from the Fund its reasonable costs and expenses incurred in the administration and management of the Fund and a reasonable fee to be approved by the Department for its management services. The Authority may provide a portion of that fee to the Department to cover the Department’s costs and expenses in administering the Fund.B\n\n1. The Department shall develop and provide an opportunity for a 30-day public comment period prior to each new loan or grant offering to solicit feedback on proposed revisions to the Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund Manual. A record of each application for a grant or loan from the Fund and the action taken thereon shall be available for public inspection at the office of the Department and on a publicly accessible website.2\n\nThe Director shall convene an Advisory Review Committee (the Committee) to assist in the distribution of loans and grants from the Fund. The Committee shall review applications to the Fund and make recommendations on the disbursement of moneys from the Fund and any other appropriate issues to the Department, the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources, and the Chief Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth. The Committee shall include representatives from the Department of Emergency Management, the Department of Environmental Quality, the Department of Housing and Community Development, a nonprofit group engaged in resilience efforts, the agriculture industry, the manufacturing industry, and the business community, the Virginia Director of the Chesapeake Bay Commission, and others as the Director deems appropriate. Appointed members of the Committee shall serve without compensation.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":235904,"text":"The Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund is established as a permanent and perpetual fund. All sums appropriated to the Fund by the General Assembly, all sums allocated to the Commonwealth for resilience purposes through the federal government, all receipts by the Fund from loans made by it to local governments, all income from the investment of moneys held in the Fund, and any other sums designated for deposit to the Fund from any source public or private shall be designated for deposit to the Fund. The Fund shall be administered and managed by the Authority as prescribed in this article, subject to the right of the Department, following consultation with the Authority, the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources, and the Chief Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth, to direct the distribution of loans or grants from the Fund to particular local governments and to establish the interest rates and repayment terms of such loans as provided in this article. Additional weight shall be given to those projects that are located in a locality designated as having a very low community resilience rating under a standard adopted by the Department. A portion of the Fund shall be reserved to hold money that is allocated only for the hazard mitigation of buildings and that shall not be available for other uses. In order to carry out the administration and management of the Fund, the Authority is granted the power to employ officers, employees, agents, advisers, and consultants, including, without limitation, attorneys, financial advisers, engineers, and other technical advisers and public accountants and, the provisions of any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, to determine their duties and compensation without the approval of any other agency or instrumentality. The Authority may disburse from the Fund its reasonable costs and expenses incurred in the administration and management of the Fund and a reasonable fee to be approved by the Department for its management services. The Authority may provide a portion of that fee to the Department to cover the Department’s costs and expenses in administering the Fund.","type":"section","prefixes":["A"],"prefix":"A","entire_prefix":"A","prefix_anchor":"A","level":1,"next_prefix":"B"},"1":{"id":235905,"text":"1. The Department shall develop and provide an opportunity for a 30-day public comment period prior to each new loan or grant offering to solicit feedback on proposed revisions to the Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund Manual. A record of each application for a grant or loan from the Fund and the action taken thereon shall be available for public inspection at the office of the Department and on a publicly accessible website.","type":"section","prefixes":["B"],"prefix":"B","entire_prefix":"B","prefix_anchor":"B","level":1,"prior_prefix":"A","next_prefix":"B2"},"2":{"id":235906,"text":"The Director shall convene an Advisory Review Committee (the Committee) to assist in the distribution of loans and grants from the Fund. The Committee shall review applications to the Fund and make recommendations on the disbursement of moneys from the Fund and any other appropriate issues to the Department, the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources, and the Chief Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth. The Committee shall include representatives from the Department of Emergency Management, the Department of Environmental Quality, the Department of Housing and Community Development, a nonprofit group engaged in resilience efforts, the agriculture industry, the manufacturing industry, and the business community, the Virginia Director of the Chesapeake Bay Commission, and others as the Director deems appropriate. Appointed members of the Committee shall serve without compensation.","type":"section","prefixes":["B","2"],"prefix":"2","entire_prefix":"B2","prefix_anchor":"B2","level":2,"prior_prefix":"B"}},"ancestry":[{"id":15820,"edition_id":1,"name":"Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund","identifier":"1.4","label":"article","depth":4,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12894,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 04:00:04","date_modified":"2026-06-26 04:00:04","permalink":{"id":144391,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":15820,"identifier":"1.4","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/1.4","url":"\/10.1\/I\/6\/1.4\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12894,"edition_id":1,"name":"Flood Protection and Dam Safety","identifier":"6","label":"chapter","depth":3,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12893,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:59","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:59","permalink":{"id":144271,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12894,"identifier":"6","token":"10.1\/I\/6","url":"\/10.1\/I\/6\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12893,"edition_id":1,"name":"Activities Administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation","identifier":"I","label":"subtitle","depth":2,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12740,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:59","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:59","permalink":{"id":143315,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12893,"identifier":"I","token":"10.1\/I","url":"\/10.1\/I\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12740,"edition_id":1,"name":"Conservation","identifier":"10.1","label":"title","depth":1,"order_by":1,"parent_id":null,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","permalink":{"id":143313,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12740,"identifier":"10.1","token":"10.1","url":"\/10.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}}],"structure_contents":[{"id":71342,"structure_id":15820,"section_number":"10.1-603.28","catch_line":"Definitions","url":"\/10.1-603.28\/","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/1.4\/10.1-603.28","metadata":false},{"id":64816,"structure_id":15820,"section_number":"10.1-603.29","catch_line":"Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund","url":"\/10.1-603.29\/","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/1.4\/10.1-603.29","metadata":false},{"id":61024,"structure_id":15820,"section_number":"10.1-603.30","catch_line":"Deposit of moneys; expenditures; investments","url":"\/10.1-603.30\/","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/1.4\/10.1-603.30","metadata":false},{"id":86716,"structure_id":15820,"section_number":"10.1-603.31","catch_line":"Annual audit","url":"\/10.1-603.31\/","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/1.4\/10.1-603.31","metadata":false},{"id":81329,"structure_id":15820,"section_number":"10.1-603.32","catch_line":"Collection of money due to Fund","url":"\/10.1-603.32\/","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/1.4\/10.1-603.32","metadata":false},{"id":63968,"structure_id":15820,"section_number":"10.1-603.33","catch_line":"Loans to local governments","url":"\/10.1-603.33\/","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/1.4\/10.1-603.33","metadata":false},{"id":75447,"structure_id":15820,"section_number":"10.1-603.34","catch_line":"Grants to local governments","url":"\/10.1-603.34\/","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/1.4\/10.1-603.34","metadata":false},{"id":61826,"structure_id":15820,"section_number":"10.1-603.35","catch_line":"Loans and grants for regional projects, etc","url":"\/10.1-603.35\/","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/1.4\/10.1-603.35","metadata":false},{"id":80345,"structure_id":15820,"section_number":"10.1-603.36","catch_line":"Loans and grants to a local government for a funding program","url":"\/10.1-603.36\/","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/1.4\/10.1-603.36","metadata":false},{"id":73941,"structure_id":15820,"section_number":"10.1-603.37","catch_line":"Pledge of loans to secure bonds of Authority","url":"\/10.1-603.37\/","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/1.4\/10.1-603.37","metadata":false},{"id":84218,"structure_id":15820,"section_number":"10.1-603.38","catch_line":"Sale of loans","url":"\/10.1-603.38\/","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/1.4\/10.1-603.38","metadata":false},{"id":66478,"structure_id":15820,"section_number":"10.1-603.39","catch_line":"Powers of the Authority","url":"\/10.1-603.39\/","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/1.4\/10.1-603.39","metadata":false},{"id":79121,"structure_id":15820,"section_number":"10.1-603.40","catch_line":"Liberal construction of article","url":"\/10.1-603.40\/","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/1.4\/10.1-603.40","metadata":false}],"previous_section":{"id":71342,"structure_id":15820,"section_number":"10.1-603.28","catch_line":"Definitions","url":"\/10.1-603.28\/","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/1.4\/10.1-603.28","metadata":false},"next_section":{"id":61024,"structure_id":15820,"section_number":"10.1-603.30","catch_line":"Deposit of moneys; expenditures; investments","url":"\/10.1-603.30\/","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/1.4\/10.1-603.30","metadata":false},"metadata":false,"official_url":"https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/10.1-603.29\/","history_text":"

This law was first created in 2022. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 739<\/a> and 782<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2024, chapters 753<\/a> and 816<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":144397,"object_type":"law","relational_id":64816,"identifier":"10.1-603.29","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/1.4\/10.1-603.29","url":"\/10.1-603.29\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/10.1-603.29\/","token":"10.1\/I\/6\/1.4\/10.1-603.29","dublin_core":{"Title":"Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 10.1-603.29","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> The Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund<\/span> is established as a permanent and perpetual fund<\/span>. All sums appropriated to the Fund<\/span> by the General Assembly, all sums allocated to the Commonwealth for resilience<\/span> purposes through the federal government, all receipts by the Fund<\/span> from loans made by it to local governments<\/span>, all income from the investment of moneys held in the Fund<\/span>, and any other sums designated for deposit to the Fund<\/span> from any source public or private shall be designated for deposit to the Fund<\/span>. The Fund<\/span> shall be administered and managed by the Authority<\/span> as prescribed in this article, subject to the right of the Department<\/span>, following consultation with the Authority<\/span>, the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources, and the Chief Resilience<\/span> Officer of the Commonwealth, to direct the distribution of loans or grants from the Fund<\/span> to particular local governments<\/span> and to establish the interest rates and repayment terms of such loans as provided in this article. Additional weight shall be given to those projects<\/span> that are located in a locality designated as having a very low community resilience<\/span> rating under a standard adopted by the Department<\/span>. A portion of the Fund<\/span> shall be reserved to hold money that is allocated only for the hazard mitigation of buildings and that shall not be available for other uses. In order<\/span> to carry out the administration and management of the Fund<\/span>, the Authority<\/span> is granted the power to employ officers, employees, agents, advisers, and consultants, including, without limitation, attorneys, financial advisers, engineers, and other technical advisers and public accountants and, the provisions of any other law<\/span> to the contrary notwithstanding, to determine their duties and compensation without the approval of any other agency or instrumentality. The Authority<\/span> may disburse from the Fund<\/span> its reasonable costs<\/span> and expenses incurred in the administration and management of the Fund<\/span> and a reasonable fee to be approved by the Department<\/span> for its management services. The Authority<\/span> may provide a portion of that fee to the Department<\/span> to cover the Department<\/span>’s costs<\/span> and expenses in administering the Fund<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> 1. The Department<\/span> shall develop and provide an opportunity for a 30-day public comment period prior to each new loan or grant offering to solicit feedback on proposed revisions to the Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund<\/span> Manual. A record of each application for a grant or loan from the Fund<\/span> and the action taken thereon shall be available for public inspection at the office of the Department<\/span> and on a publicly accessible website. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> The Director<\/span> shall convene an Advisory Review Committee (the Committee) to assist in the distribution of loans and grants from the Fund<\/span>. The Committee shall review applications to the Fund<\/span> and make recommendations on the disbursement of moneys from the Fund<\/span> and any other appropriate issues<\/span> to the Department<\/span>, the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources, and the Chief Resilience<\/span> Officer of the Commonwealth. The Committee shall include representatives from the Department<\/span> of Emergency Management, the Department<\/span> of Environmental Quality, the Department<\/span> of Housing and Community Development, a nonprofit group engaged in resilience<\/span> efforts, the agriculture industry, the manufacturing industry, and the business community, the Virginia Director<\/span> of the Chesapeake Bay Commission, and others as the Director<\/span> deems appropriate. Appointed members of the Committee shall serve without compensation. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nRESILIENT VIRGINIA REVOLVING FUND (\u00a7 10.1-603.29)\n\nA. The Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund is established as a permanent and\nperpetual fund. All sums appropriated to the Fund by the General Assembly, all\nsums allocated to the Commonwealth for resilience purposes through the federal\ngovernment, all receipts by the Fund from loans made by it to local governments,\nall income from the investment of moneys held in the Fund, and any other sums\ndesignated for deposit to the Fund from any source public or private shall be\ndesignated for deposit to the Fund. The Fund shall be administered and managed\nby the Authority as prescribed in this article, subject to the right of the\nDepartment, following consultation with the Authority, the Secretary of Natural\nand Historic Resources, and the Chief Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth, to\ndirect the distribution of loans or grants from the Fund to particular local\ngovernments and to establish the interest rates and repayment terms of such\nloans as provided in this article. Additional weight shall be given to those\nprojects that are located in a locality designated as having a very low\ncommunity resilience rating under a standard adopted by the Department. A\nportion of the Fund shall be reserved to hold money that is allocated only for\nthe hazard mitigation of buildings and that shall not be available for other\nuses. In order to carry out the administration and management of the Fund, the\nAuthority is granted the power to employ officers, employees, agents, advisers,\nand consultants, including, without limitation, attorneys, financial advisers,\nengineers, and other technical advisers and public accountants and, the\nprovisions of any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, to determine their\nduties and compensation without the approval of any other agency or\ninstrumentality. The Authority may disburse from the Fund its reasonable costs\nand expenses incurred in the administration and management of the Fund and a\nreasonable fee to be approved by the Department for its management services. The\nAuthority may provide a portion of that fee to the Department to cover the\nDepartment’s costs and expenses in administering the Fund.\n\nB. 1. The Department shall develop and provide an opportunity for a 30-day\npublic comment period prior to each new loan or grant offering to solicit\nfeedback on proposed revisions to the Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund Manual.\nA record of each application for a grant or loan from the Fund and the action\ntaken thereon shall be available for public inspection at the office of the\nDepartment and on a publicly accessible website.\n\n 2. The Director shall convene an Advisory Review Committee (the Committee) to\n assist in the distribution of loans and grants from the Fund. The Committee\n shall review applications to the Fund and make recommendations on the\n disbursement of moneys from the Fund and any other appropriate issues to the\n Department, the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources, and the Chief\n Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth. The Committee shall include\n representatives from the Department of Emergency Management, the Department of\n Environmental Quality, the Department of Housing and Community Development, a\n nonprofit group engaged in resilience efforts, the agriculture industry, the\n manufacturing industry, and the business community, the Virginia Director of\n the Chesapeake Bay Commission, and others as the Director deems appropriate.\n Appointed members of the Committee shall serve without compensation.\n\nHISTORY: 2022, cc. 739, 782; 2024, cc. 753, 816.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}