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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 651 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. Unfortunately, the 1966 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. 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 1997, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?971+ful+CHAP0587\">587<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":158393,"object_type":"law","relational_id":69318,"identifier":"15.2-4912","token":"15.2\/IV\/49\/15.2-4912","url":"\/15.2-4912\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-4912\/","token":"15.2\/IV\/49\/15.2-4912","dublin_core":{"Title":"Exemption from taxation","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-4912","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The <span class=\"dictionary\">authority<\/span> is hereby declared to be performing a public function in behalf of the <span class=\"dictionary\">locality<\/span> with respect to which the <span class=\"dictionary\">authority<\/span> is created and to be a public instrumentality of such <span class=\"dictionary\">locality<\/span>. 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Accordingly, the income, including any profit\nmade on the sale thereof from all bonds issued by the authority, shall at all\ntimes be exempt from all taxation by the Commonwealth or any political\nsubdivision thereof.\n\nHISTORY: 1966, c. 651, \u00a7 15.1-1383; 1997, c. 587.","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}}