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I, c. 532; 2022, c. 402; 2023, cc. 506, 507; 2024, cc. 225, 242; 2025, c. 205.","full_text":"A\n\nAs used in this section:\n\t\t\t“Eligible improvements” means any of the following improvements made to eligible properties:1\n\nEnergy efficiency improvements;2\n\nWater efficiency and safe drinking water improvements;3\n\nRenewable energy improvements;4\n\nResiliency improvements;5\n\nStormwater management improvements;6\n\nEnvironmental remediation improvements; and7\n\nElectric vehicle infrastructure improvements.\n\t\t\t\tA program administrator may include in its C-PACE loan program guide or other administrative documentation definitions, interpretations, and examples of these categories of eligible improvements.\n\t\t\t\t“Eligible properties” means all assessable commercial real estate located within the Commonwealth, with all buildings located or to be located thereon, whether vacant or occupied, whether improved or unimproved, and regardless of whether such real estate is currently subject to taxation by the locality. “Eligible properties” are eligible for the C-PACE loan program and may include multifamily properties with no fewer than five units, common areas of real estate owned by a cooperative or a property owners’ association as defined in § 55.1-1800 that have a separate real property tax identification number, and commercial condominiums as defined in § 55.1-1900. Residential real estate with fewer than five units is not eligible for the C-PACE loan program.\n\t\t\t\t“Program administrator” means a third party that is contracted for professional services to administer a C-PACE loan program.\n\t\t\t\t“Property owner” means the fee simple owner of eligible property or the lessee under a long-term ground lease of eligible property, including a property that is owned by a public or private entity. To be eligible for a C-PACE loan (i) the term of the C-PACE loan shall not exceed the remaining term of the ground lease, (ii) there shall be no ground lease provisions or other circumstances that would prevent the property owner from participating in the C-PACE loan program, (iii) the fee simple owner shall consent to the C-PACE loan, and (iv) the fee simple owner and the lessee under a long-term ground lease shall comply with the requirements of the C-PACE loan program, including the program guide.\n\t\t\t\t“Resiliency improvement” means an improvement that increases the capacity of a structure or infrastructure to withstand or recover from natural disasters, the effects of climate change, and attacks and accidents, including, but not limited to:1\n\nFlood mitigation or the mitigation of the impacts of flooding;2\n\nInundation adaptation;3\n\nNatural or nature-based features and living shorelines, as defined in § 28.2-104.1;4\n\nEnhancement of fire or wind resistance;5\n\nMicrogrids;6\n\nEnergy storage; and7\n\nEnhancement of the resilience capacity of a natural system, structure, or infrastructure.B\n\nAny locality may, by ordinance, authorize contracts to provide C-PACE loans (loans) for the initial acquisition, installation, and refinancing of eligible improvements located on eligible properties by free and willing property owners of such eligible properties. The ordinance may refer to the mode of financing as Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing and shall include but not be limited to the following:1\n\nThe kinds of eligible improvements that qualify for loans;2\n\nThe proposed arrangement for such C-PACE loan program (loan program), including (i) a statement concerning the source of funding for the C-PACE loan; (ii) the time period during which contracting property owners would repay the C-PACE loan; and (iii) the method of apportioning all or any portion of the costs incidental to financing, administration, and collection of the C-PACE loan among the parties to the C-PACE transaction;3\n\n(i) A minimum dollar amount that may be financed with respect to an eligible property; (ii) if a locality or other public body is originating the loans, a maximum aggregate dollar amount that may be financed with respect to loans originated by the locality or other public body, and (iii) provisions that the loan program may approve a loan application submitted within three years of the locality’s issuance of a certificate of occupancy or other evidence that eligible improvements comply substantially with the plans and specifications previously approved by the locality and that such loan may refinance or reimburse the property owner for the total costs of such eligible improvements;4\n\nIn the case of a loan program described in clause (ii) of subdivision 3, a method for setting requests from owners of eligible properties for financing in priority order in the event that requests appear likely to exceed the authorization amount of the loan program. Priority shall be given to those requests from owners of eligible properties who meet established income or assessed property value eligibility requirements;5\n\nIdentification of a local official authorized to enter into contracts on behalf of the locality. A locality may contract with a program administrator to administer such loan program;6\n\nIdentification of any fee that the locality intends to impose on the property owner requesting to participate in the loan program to offset the cost of administering the loan program. The fee may be assessed as a program fee paid by the property owner requesting to participate in the program; and7\n\nA draft contract specifying the terms and conditions proposed by the locality.C\n\nThe locality may combine the loan payments required by the contracts with billings for water or sewer charges, real property tax assessments, or other billings; in such cases, the locality may establish the order in which loan payments will be applied to the different charges. The locality may not combine its billings for loan payments required by a contract authorized pursuant to this section with billings of another locality or political subdivision, including an authority operating pursuant to Chapter 51 (§ 15.2-5100 et seq.), unless such locality or political subdivision has given its consent by duly adopted resolution or ordinance. The locality may, either by ordinance or its program guide, delegate the billing; collection, including enforcement; and remittance of C-PACE loan payments to a third party.D\n\nThe locality shall offer private lending institutions the opportunity to participate in local C-PACE loan programs established pursuant to this section.E\n\nIn order to secure the loan authorized pursuant to this section, the locality shall place a voluntary special assessment lien equal in value to the loan against any property where such eligible improvements are being installed. The locality may bundle or package said loans for transfer to private lenders in such a manner that would allow the voluntary special assessment liens to remain in full force to secure the loans. The placement of a voluntary special assessment lien shall not require a new assessment on the value of the real property that is being improved under the loan program.F\n\nA voluntary special assessment lien imposed on real property under this section:1\n\nShall have the same priority status as a property tax lien against real property, except that such voluntary special assessment lien shall have priority over any previously recorded mortgage or deed of trust lien only if (i) a written subordination agreement, in a form and substance acceptable to each prior lienholder in its sole and exclusive discretion, is executed by the holder of each mortgage or deed of trust lien on the property and recorded with the special assessment lien in the land records where the property is located, and (ii) evidence that the property owner is current on payments on loans secured by a mortgage or deed of trust lien on the property and on property tax payments, that the property owner is not insolvent or in bankruptcy proceedings, and that the title of the benefited property is not in dispute is submitted to the locality prior to recording of the special assessment lien;2\n\nShall run with the land, and that portion of the assessment under the assessment contract that has not yet become due is not eliminated by foreclosure of a property tax lien;3\n\nMay be enforced by the local government in the same manner that a property tax lien against real property is enforced by the local government. A local government shall be entitled to recover costs and expenses, including attorney fees, in a suit to collect a delinquent installment of an assessment in the same manner as in a suit to collect a delinquent property tax; and4\n\nMay incur interest and penalties for delinquent installments of the assessment in the same manner as delinquent property taxes.G\n\nPrior to the enactment of an ordinance pursuant to this section, a public hearing shall be held at which interested persons may object to or inquire about the proposed loan program or any of its particulars. The public hearing shall be published twice, with the first notice appearing no more than 28 days before and the second notice appearing no less than seven days before the hearing, in a newspaper of general circulation in the locality.H\n\nThe Department of Energy shall serve as a statewide sponsor for a loan program that meets the requirements of this section. The Department of Energy shall engage a private program administrator through a competitive selection process to develop the statewide loan program. A locality, by its adoption or amendment of its C-PACE ordinance described in subsection B, may opt into the statewide C-PACE loan program sponsored by the Department of Energy without undertaking any competitive procurement process, provided that the locality agrees to execute a locality agreement within 30 days after the adoption or amendment of its C-PACE ordinance.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":283258,"text":"As used in this section:\n\t\t\t“Eligible improvements” means any of the following improvements made to eligible properties:","type":"section","prefixes":["A"],"prefix":"A","entire_prefix":"A","prefix_anchor":"A","level":1,"next_prefix":"A1"},"1":{"id":283259,"text":"Energy efficiency improvements;","type":"section","prefixes":["A","1"],"prefix":"1","entire_prefix":"A1","prefix_anchor":"A1","level":2,"prior_prefix":"A","next_prefix":"A2"},"2":{"id":283260,"text":"Water efficiency and safe drinking water improvements;","type":"section","prefixes":["A","2"],"prefix":"2","entire_prefix":"A2","prefix_anchor":"A2","level":2,"prior_prefix":"A1","next_prefix":"A3"},"3":{"id":283261,"text":"Renewable energy improvements;","type":"section","prefixes":["A","3"],"prefix":"3","entire_prefix":"A3","prefix_anchor":"A3","level":2,"prior_prefix":"A2","next_prefix":"A4"},"4":{"id":283262,"text":"Resiliency improvements;","type":"section","prefixes":["A","4"],"prefix":"4","entire_prefix":"A4","prefix_anchor":"A4","level":2,"prior_prefix":"A3","next_prefix":"A5"},"5":{"id":283263,"text":"Stormwater management improvements;","type":"section","prefixes":["A","5"],"prefix":"5","entire_prefix":"A5","prefix_anchor":"A5","level":2,"prior_prefix":"A4","next_prefix":"A6"},"6":{"id":283264,"text":"Environmental remediation improvements; and","type":"section","prefixes":["A","6"],"prefix":"6","entire_prefix":"A6","prefix_anchor":"A6","level":2,"prior_prefix":"A5","next_prefix":"A7"},"7":{"id":283265,"text":"Electric vehicle infrastructure improvements.\n\t\t\t\tA program administrator may include in its C-PACE loan program guide or other administrative documentation definitions, interpretations, and examples of these categories of eligible improvements.\n\t\t\t\t“Eligible properties” means all assessable commercial real estate located within the Commonwealth, with all buildings located or to be located thereon, whether vacant or occupied, whether improved or unimproved, and regardless of whether such real estate is currently subject to taxation by the locality. “Eligible properties” are eligible for the C-PACE loan program and may include multifamily properties with no fewer than five units, common areas of real estate owned by a cooperative or a property owners’ association as defined in § 55.1-1800 that have a separate real property tax identification number, and commercial condominiums as defined in § 55.1-1900. Residential real estate with fewer than five units is not eligible for the C-PACE loan program.\n\t\t\t\t“Program administrator” means a third party that is contracted for professional services to administer a C-PACE loan program.\n\t\t\t\t“Property owner” means the fee simple owner of eligible property or the lessee under a long-term ground lease of eligible property, including a property that is owned by a public or private entity. To be eligible for a C-PACE loan (i) the term of the C-PACE loan shall not exceed the remaining term of the ground lease, (ii) there shall be no ground lease provisions or other circumstances that would prevent the property owner from participating in the C-PACE loan program, (iii) the fee simple owner shall consent to the C-PACE loan, and (iv) the fee simple owner and the lessee under a long-term ground lease shall comply with the requirements of the C-PACE loan program, including the program guide.\n\t\t\t\t“Resiliency improvement” means an improvement that increases the capacity of a structure or infrastructure to withstand or recover from natural disasters, the effects of climate change, and attacks and accidents, including, but not limited to:","type":"section","prefixes":["A","7"],"prefix":"7","entire_prefix":"A7","prefix_anchor":"A7","level":2,"prior_prefix":"A6","next_prefix":"A1"},"8":{"id":283266,"text":"Flood mitigation or the mitigation of the impacts of flooding;","type":"section","prefixes":["A","1"],"prefix":"1","entire_prefix":"A1","prefix_anchor":"A1","level":2,"prior_prefix":"A7","next_prefix":"A2"},"9":{"id":283267,"text":"Inundation adaptation;","type":"section","prefixes":["A","2"],"prefix":"2","entire_prefix":"A2","prefix_anchor":"A2","level":2,"prior_prefix":"A1","next_prefix":"A3"},"10":{"id":283268,"text":"Natural or nature-based features and living shorelines, as defined in § 28.2-104.1;","type":"section","prefixes":["A","3"],"prefix":"3","entire_prefix":"A3","prefix_anchor":"A3","level":2,"prior_prefix":"A2","next_prefix":"A4"},"11":{"id":283269,"text":"Enhancement of fire or wind resistance;","type":"section","prefixes":["A","4"],"prefix":"4","entire_prefix":"A4","prefix_anchor":"A4","level":2,"prior_prefix":"A3","next_prefix":"A5"},"12":{"id":283270,"text":"Microgrids;","type":"section","prefixes":["A","5"],"prefix":"5","entire_prefix":"A5","prefix_anchor":"A5","level":2,"prior_prefix":"A4","next_prefix":"A6"},"13":{"id":283271,"text":"Energy storage; and","type":"section","prefixes":["A","6"],"prefix":"6","entire_prefix":"A6","prefix_anchor":"A6","level":2,"prior_prefix":"A5","next_prefix":"A7"},"14":{"id":283272,"text":"Enhancement of the resilience capacity of a natural system, structure, or infrastructure.","type":"section","prefixes":["A","7"],"prefix":"7","entire_prefix":"A7","prefix_anchor":"A7","level":2,"prior_prefix":"A6","next_prefix":"B"},"15":{"id":283273,"text":"Any locality may, by ordinance, authorize contracts to provide C-PACE loans (loans) for the initial acquisition, installation, and refinancing of eligible improvements located on eligible properties by free and willing property owners of such eligible properties. The ordinance may refer to the mode of financing as Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing and shall include but not be limited to the following:","type":"section","prefixes":["B"],"prefix":"B","entire_prefix":"B","prefix_anchor":"B","level":1,"prior_prefix":"A7","next_prefix":"B1"},"16":{"id":283274,"text":"The kinds of eligible improvements that qualify for loans;","type":"section","prefixes":["B","1"],"prefix":"1","entire_prefix":"B1","prefix_anchor":"B1","level":2,"prior_prefix":"B","next_prefix":"B2"},"17":{"id":283275,"text":"The proposed arrangement for such C-PACE loan program (loan program), including (i) a statement concerning the source of funding for the C-PACE loan; (ii) the time period during which contracting property owners would repay the C-PACE loan; and (iii) the method of apportioning all or any portion of the costs incidental to financing, administration, and collection of the C-PACE loan among the parties to the C-PACE transaction;","type":"section","prefixes":["B","2"],"prefix":"2","entire_prefix":"B2","prefix_anchor":"B2","level":2,"prior_prefix":"B1","next_prefix":"B3"},"18":{"id":283276,"text":"(i) A minimum dollar amount that may be financed with respect to an eligible property; (ii) if a locality or other public body is originating the loans, a maximum aggregate dollar amount that may be financed with respect to loans originated by the locality or other public body, and (iii) provisions that the loan program may approve a loan application submitted within three years of the locality’s issuance of a certificate of occupancy or other evidence that eligible improvements comply substantially with the plans and specifications previously approved by the locality and that such loan may refinance or reimburse the property owner for the total costs of such eligible improvements;","type":"section","prefixes":["B","3"],"prefix":"3","entire_prefix":"B3","prefix_anchor":"B3","level":2,"prior_prefix":"B2","next_prefix":"B4"},"19":{"id":283277,"text":"In the case of a loan program described in clause (ii) of subdivision 3, a method for setting requests from owners of eligible properties for financing in priority order in the event that requests appear likely to exceed the authorization amount of the loan program. Priority shall be given to those requests from owners of eligible properties who meet established income or assessed property value eligibility requirements;","type":"section","prefixes":["B","4"],"prefix":"4","entire_prefix":"B4","prefix_anchor":"B4","level":2,"prior_prefix":"B3","next_prefix":"B5"},"20":{"id":283278,"text":"Identification of a local official authorized to enter into contracts on behalf of the locality. A locality may contract with a program administrator to administer such loan program;","type":"section","prefixes":["B","5"],"prefix":"5","entire_prefix":"B5","prefix_anchor":"B5","level":2,"prior_prefix":"B4","next_prefix":"B6"},"21":{"id":283279,"text":"Identification of any fee that the locality intends to impose on the property owner requesting to participate in the loan program to offset the cost of administering the loan program. The fee may be assessed as a program fee paid by the property owner requesting to participate in the program; and","type":"section","prefixes":["B","6"],"prefix":"6","entire_prefix":"B6","prefix_anchor":"B6","level":2,"prior_prefix":"B5","next_prefix":"B7"},"22":{"id":283280,"text":"A draft contract specifying the terms and conditions proposed by the locality.","type":"section","prefixes":["B","7"],"prefix":"7","entire_prefix":"B7","prefix_anchor":"B7","level":2,"prior_prefix":"B6","next_prefix":"C"},"23":{"id":283281,"text":"The locality may combine the loan payments required by the contracts with billings for water or sewer charges, real property tax assessments, or other billings; in such cases, the locality may establish the order in which loan payments will be applied to the different charges. The locality may not combine its billings for loan payments required by a contract authorized pursuant to this section with billings of another locality or political subdivision, including an authority operating pursuant to Chapter 51 (§ 15.2-5100 et seq.), unless such locality or political subdivision has given its consent by duly adopted resolution or ordinance. The locality may, either by ordinance or its program guide, delegate the billing; collection, including enforcement; and remittance of C-PACE loan payments to a third party.","type":"section","prefixes":["C"],"prefix":"C","entire_prefix":"C","prefix_anchor":"C","level":1,"prior_prefix":"B7","next_prefix":"D"},"24":{"id":283282,"text":"The locality shall offer private lending institutions the opportunity to participate in local C-PACE loan programs established pursuant to this section.","type":"section","prefixes":["D"],"prefix":"D","entire_prefix":"D","prefix_anchor":"D","level":1,"prior_prefix":"C","next_prefix":"E"},"25":{"id":283283,"text":"In order to secure the loan authorized pursuant to this section, the locality shall place a voluntary special assessment lien equal in value to the loan against any property where such eligible improvements are being installed. The locality may bundle or package said loans for transfer to private lenders in such a manner that would allow the voluntary special assessment liens to remain in full force to secure the loans. The placement of a voluntary special assessment lien shall not require a new assessment on the value of the real property that is being improved under the loan program.","type":"section","prefixes":["E"],"prefix":"E","entire_prefix":"E","prefix_anchor":"E","level":1,"prior_prefix":"D","next_prefix":"F"},"26":{"id":283284,"text":"A voluntary special assessment lien imposed on real property under this section:","type":"section","prefixes":["F"],"prefix":"F","entire_prefix":"F","prefix_anchor":"F","level":1,"prior_prefix":"E","next_prefix":"F1"},"27":{"id":283285,"text":"Shall have the same priority status as a property tax lien against real property, except that such voluntary special assessment lien shall have priority over any previously recorded mortgage or deed of trust lien only if (i) a written subordination agreement, in a form and substance acceptable to each prior lienholder in its sole and exclusive discretion, is executed by the holder of each mortgage or deed of trust lien on the property and recorded with the special assessment lien in the land records where the property is located, and (ii) evidence that the property owner is current on payments on loans secured by a mortgage or deed of trust lien on the property and on property tax payments, that the property owner is not insolvent or in bankruptcy proceedings, and that the title of the benefited property is not in dispute is submitted to the locality prior to recording of the special assessment lien;","type":"section","prefixes":["F","1"],"prefix":"1","entire_prefix":"F1","prefix_anchor":"F1","level":2,"prior_prefix":"F","next_prefix":"F2"},"28":{"id":283286,"text":"Shall run with the land, and that portion of the assessment under the assessment contract that has not yet become due is not eliminated by foreclosure of a property tax lien;","type":"section","prefixes":["F","2"],"prefix":"2","entire_prefix":"F2","prefix_anchor":"F2","level":2,"prior_prefix":"F1","next_prefix":"F3"},"29":{"id":283287,"text":"May be enforced by the local government in the same manner that a property tax lien against real property is enforced by the local government. A local government shall be entitled to recover costs and expenses, including attorney fees, in a suit to collect a delinquent installment of an assessment in the same manner as in a suit to collect a delinquent property tax; and","type":"section","prefixes":["F","3"],"prefix":"3","entire_prefix":"F3","prefix_anchor":"F3","level":2,"prior_prefix":"F2","next_prefix":"F4"},"30":{"id":283288,"text":"May incur interest and penalties for delinquent installments of the assessment in the same manner as delinquent property taxes.","type":"section","prefixes":["F","4"],"prefix":"4","entire_prefix":"F4","prefix_anchor":"F4","level":2,"prior_prefix":"F3","next_prefix":"G"},"31":{"id":283289,"text":"Prior to the enactment of an ordinance pursuant to this section, a public hearing shall be held at which interested persons may object to or inquire about the proposed loan program or any of its particulars. 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This law was first created in 2009. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 773<\/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 9 times. 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. Those modifications are as follows: in 2010, chapter 141<\/a>; in 2015, chapters 389<\/a> and 427<\/a>; in 2019, chapters 564<\/a> and 753<\/a>; in 2020, chapter 664<\/a>; in 2021, chapter 6<\/a>; in 2022, chapter 402<\/a>; in 2023, chapters 506<\/a> and 507<\/a>; in 2024, chapters 225<\/a> and 242<\/a>; in 2025, chapter 205<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":54398,"section_number":"15.2-5100","catch_line":"Title of chapter","order_by":null,"url":"\/15.2-5100\/"},{"id":64559,"section_number":"28.2-104.1","catch_line":"Living shorelines; development of general permit; guidance","order_by":null,"url":"\/28.2-104.1\/"},{"id":65321,"section_number":"55.1-1800","catch_line":"Definitions","order_by":null,"url":"\/55.1-1800\/"},{"id":55215,"section_number":"55.1-1900","catch_line":"Definitions","order_by":null,"url":"\/55.1-1900\/"}],"permalink":{"id":156731,"object_type":"law","relational_id":79079,"identifier":"15.2-958.3","token":"15.2\/II\/9\/5\/15.2-958.3","url":"\/15.2-958.3\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-958.3\/","token":"15.2\/II\/9\/5\/15.2-958.3","dublin_core":{"Title":"Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing programs","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-958.3","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> As used in this section:\n\t\t\t“Eligible improvements<\/span>” means any of the following improvements made to eligible properties<\/span>: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> Energy efficiency improvements; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> Water efficiency and safe drinking water improvements; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

3.<\/span> Renewable energy improvements; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

4.<\/span> Resiliency improvements<\/span>; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

5.<\/span> Stormwater management improvements; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

6.<\/span> Environmental remediation improvements; and <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

7.<\/span> Electric vehicle infrastructure improvements.\n\t\t\t\tA program administrator<\/span> may include in its C-PACE loan program guide or other administrative documentation definitions, interpretations, and examples of these categories of eligible improvements<\/span>.\n\t\t\t\t“Eligible properties<\/span>” means all assessable commercial real estate located within the Commonwealth, with all buildings located or to be located thereon, whether vacant or occupied, whether improved or unimproved, and regardless of whether such real estate is currently subject to taxation by the locality<\/span>. “Eligible properties<\/span>” are eligible for the C-PACE loan program and may include multifamily properties with no fewer than five units, common areas of real estate owned by a cooperative or a property owners<\/span>’ association as defined in § 55.1-1800<\/a> that have a separate real property tax identification number, and commercial condominiums as defined in § 55.1-1900<\/a>. Residential real estate with fewer than five units is not eligible for the C-PACE loan program.\n\t\t\t\t“Program administrator<\/span>” means a third party<\/span> that is contracted for professional services to administer a C-PACE loan program.\n\t\t\t\t“Property owner<\/span>” means the fee simple owner of eligible property or the lessee under a long-term ground lease of eligible property, including a property that is owned by a public or private entity. To be eligible for a C-PACE loan (i) the term of the C-PACE loan shall not exceed the remaining term of the ground lease, (ii) there shall be no ground lease provisions or other circumstances that would prevent the property owner<\/span> from participating in the C-PACE loan program, (iii) the fee simple owner shall consent to the C-PACE loan, and (iv) the fee simple owner and the lessee under a long-term ground lease shall comply with the requirements of the C-PACE loan program, including the program guide.\n\t\t\t\t“Resiliency improvement<\/span>” means an improvement that increases the capacity of a structure or infrastructure to withstand or recover from natural disasters, the effects of climate change, and attacks and accidents, including, but not limited to: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> Flood mitigation or the mitigation of the impacts of flooding; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> Inundation adaptation; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

3.<\/span> Natural or nature-based features and living shorelines, as defined in § 28.2-104.1<\/a>; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

4.<\/span> Enhancement of fire or wind resistance; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

5.<\/span> Microgrids; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

6.<\/span> Energy storage; and <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

7.<\/span> Enhancement of the resilience capacity of a natural system, structure, or infrastructure. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> Any locality<\/span> may, by ordinance<\/span>, authorize contracts<\/span> to provide C-PACE loans (loans) for the initial acquisition, installation, and refinancing of eligible improvements<\/span> located on eligible properties<\/span> by free and willing property owners<\/span> of such eligible properties<\/span>. The ordinance<\/span> may refer to the mode of financing as Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing and shall include but not be limited to the following: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> The kinds of eligible improvements<\/span> that qualify for loans; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> The proposed arrangement for such C-PACE loan program (loan program), including (i) a statement concerning the source of funding for the C-PACE loan; (ii) the time period during which contracting property owners<\/span> would repay the C-PACE loan; and (iii) the method of apportioning all or any portion of the costs incidental to financing, administration, and collection of the C-PACE loan among the parties to the C-PACE transaction; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

3.<\/span> (i) A minimum dollar amount that may be financed with respect to an eligible property; (ii) if a locality<\/span> or other public body is originating the loans, a maximum aggregate dollar amount that may be financed with respect to loans originated by the locality<\/span> or other public body, and (iii) provisions that the loan program may approve a loan application submitted within three years of the locality<\/span>’s issuance of a certificate of occupancy or other evidence<\/span> that eligible improvements<\/span> comply substantially with the plans and specifications previously approved by the locality<\/span> and that such loan may refinance or reimburse the property owner<\/span> for the total costs of such eligible improvements<\/span>; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

4.<\/span> In the case of a loan program described in clause (ii) of subdivision 3, a method for setting requests from owners of eligible properties<\/span> for financing in priority order<\/span> in the event that requests appear likely to exceed the authorization amount of the loan program. Priority shall be given to those requests from owners of eligible properties<\/span> who meet established income or assessed property value eligibility requirements; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

5.<\/span> Identification of a local official authorized to enter into contracts<\/span> on behalf of the locality<\/span>. A locality<\/span> may contract<\/span> with a program administrator<\/span> to administer such loan program; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

6.<\/span> Identification of any fee that the locality<\/span> intends to impose on the property owner<\/span> requesting to participate in the loan program to offset the cost of administering the loan program. The fee may be assessed as a program fee paid by the property owner<\/span> requesting to participate in the program; and <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

7.<\/span> A draft contract<\/span> specifying the terms and conditions proposed by the locality<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

C.<\/span> The locality<\/span> may combine the loan payments required by the contracts<\/span> with billings for water or sewer charges, real property tax assessments, or other billings; in such cases, the locality<\/span> may establish the order<\/span> in which loan payments will be applied to the different charges. The locality<\/span> may not combine its billings for loan payments required by a contract<\/span> authorized pursuant to this section with billings of another locality<\/span> or political subdivision, including an authority operating pursuant to Chapter 51 (§ 15.2-5100<\/a> et seq.), unless such locality<\/span> or political subdivision has given its consent by duly adopted resolution or ordinance<\/span>. The locality<\/span> may, either by ordinance<\/span> or its program guide, delegate the billing; collection, including enforcement; and remittance of C-PACE loan payments to a third party<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

D.<\/span> The locality<\/span> shall offer private lending institutions the opportunity to participate in local C-PACE loan programs established pursuant to this section. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

E.<\/span> In order<\/span> to secure the loan authorized pursuant to this section, the locality<\/span> shall place a voluntary special assessment lien<\/span> equal in value to the loan against any property where such eligible improvements<\/span> are being installed. The locality<\/span> may bundle or package said loans for transfer to private lenders in such a manner that would allow the voluntary special assessment liens<\/span> to remain in full force to secure the loans. The placement of a voluntary special assessment lien<\/span> shall not require a new assessment on the value of the real property that is being improved under the loan program. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

F.<\/span> A voluntary special assessment lien<\/span> imposed on real property under this section: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> Shall have the same priority status as a property tax lien<\/span> against real property, except that such voluntary special assessment lien<\/span> shall have priority over any previously recorded mortgage or deed of trust lien<\/span> only if (i) a written subordination<\/span> agreement, in a form and substance acceptable to each prior lienholder in its sole and exclusive discretion, is executed by the holder of each mortgage or deed of trust lien<\/span> on the property and recorded with the special assessment lien<\/span> in the land records where the property is located, and (ii) evidence<\/span> that the property owner<\/span> is current on payments on loans secured by a mortgage or deed of trust lien<\/span> on the property and on property tax payments, that the property owner<\/span> is not insolvent or in bankruptcy<\/span> proceedings, and that the title of the benefited property is not in dispute is submitted to the locality<\/span> prior to recording of the special assessment lien<\/span>; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> Shall run with the land, and that portion of the assessment under the assessment contract<\/span> that has not yet become due is not eliminated by foreclosure of a property tax lien<\/span>; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

3.<\/span> May be enforced by the local government<\/span> in the same manner that a property tax lien<\/span> against real property is enforced by the local government<\/span>. A local government<\/span> shall be entitled to recover costs and expenses, including attorney fees, in a suit to collect a delinquent installment of an assessment in the same manner as in a suit to collect a delinquent property tax; and <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

4.<\/span> May incur interest and penalties for delinquent installments of the assessment in the same manner as delinquent property taxes. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

G.<\/span> Prior to the enactment of an ordinance<\/span> pursuant to this section, a public hearing<\/span> shall be held at which interested persons may object<\/span> to or inquire about the proposed loan program or any of its particulars. The public hearing<\/span> shall be published twice, with the first notice appearing no more than 28 days before and the second notice appearing no less than seven days before the hearing<\/span>, in a newspaper of general circulation in the locality<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

H.<\/span> The Department of Energy shall serve as a statewide sponsor for a loan program that meets the requirements of this section. The Department of Energy shall engage a private program administrator<\/span> through a competitive selection process to develop the statewide loan program. A locality<\/span>, by its adoption or amendment of its C-PACE ordinance<\/span> described in subsection B, may opt into the statewide C-PACE loan program sponsored by the Department of Energy without undertaking any competitive procurement process, provided that the locality<\/span> agrees to execute a locality<\/span> agreement within 30 days after the adoption or amendment of its C-PACE ordinance<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCOMMERCIAL PROPERTY ASSESSED CLEAN ENERGY (C-PACE) FINANCING PROGRAMS (\u00a7\n15.2-958.3)\n\nA. As used in this section:\n\t\t\t“Eligible improvements” means any of the following improvements\nmade to eligible properties:\n\n 1. Energy efficiency improvements;\n\n 2. Water efficiency and safe drinking water improvements;\n\n 3. Renewable energy improvements;\n\n 4. Resiliency improvements;\n\n 5. Stormwater management improvements;\n\n 6. Environmental remediation improvements; and\n\n 7. Electric vehicle infrastructure improvements.\n \t\t\t\tA program administrator may include in its C-PACE loan program guide or\n other administrative documentation definitions, interpretations, and examples\n of these categories of eligible improvements.\n \t\t\t\t“Eligible properties” means all assessable commercial real\n estate located within the Commonwealth, with all buildings located or to be\n located thereon, whether vacant or occupied, whether improved or unimproved,\n and regardless of whether such real estate is currently subject to taxation by\n the locality. “Eligible properties” are eligible for the C-PACE\n loan program and may include multifamily properties with no fewer than five\n units, common areas of real estate owned by a cooperative or a property\n owners’ association as defined in § 55.1-1800 that have a separate\n real property tax identification number, and commercial condominiums as\n defined in § 55.1-1900. Residential real estate with fewer than five\n units is not eligible for the C-PACE loan program.\n \t\t\t\t“Program administrator” means a third party that is contracted\n for professional services to administer a C-PACE loan program.\n \t\t\t\t“Property owner” means the fee simple owner of eligible\n property or the lessee under a long-term ground lease of eligible property,\n including a property that is owned by a public or private entity. To be\n eligible for a C-PACE loan (i) the term of the C-PACE loan shall not exceed\n the remaining term of the ground lease, (ii) there shall be no ground lease\n provisions or other circumstances that would prevent the property owner from\n participating in the C-PACE loan program, (iii) the fee simple owner shall\n consent to the C-PACE loan, and (iv) the fee simple owner and the lessee under\n a long-term ground lease shall comply with the requirements of the C-PACE loan\n program, including the program guide.\n \t\t\t\t“Resiliency improvement” means an improvement that increases\n the capacity of a structure or infrastructure to withstand or recover from\n natural disasters, the effects of climate change, and attacks and accidents,\n including, but not limited to:\n\n 1. Flood mitigation or the mitigation of the impacts of flooding;\n\n 2. Inundation adaptation;\n\n 3. Natural or nature-based features and living shorelines, as defined in\n § 28.2-104.1;\n\n 4. Enhancement of fire or wind resistance;\n\n 5. Microgrids;\n\n 6. Energy storage; and\n\n 7. Enhancement of the resilience capacity of a natural system, structure, or\n infrastructure.\n\nB. Any locality may, by ordinance, authorize contracts to provide C-PACE loans\n(loans) for the initial acquisition, installation, and refinancing of eligible\nimprovements located on eligible properties by free and willing property owners\nof such eligible properties. The ordinance may refer to the mode of financing as\nCommercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing and shall include\nbut not be limited to the following:\n\n 1. The kinds of eligible improvements that qualify for loans;\n\n 2. The proposed arrangement for such C-PACE loan program (loan program),\n including (i) a statement concerning the source of funding for the C-PACE\n loan; (ii) the time period during which contracting property owners would\n repay the C-PACE loan; and (iii) the method of apportioning all or any portion\n of the costs incidental to financing, administration, and collection of the\n C-PACE loan among the parties to the C-PACE transaction;\n\n 3. (i) A minimum dollar amount that may be financed with respect to an\n eligible property; (ii) if a locality or other public body is originating the\n loans, a maximum aggregate dollar amount that may be financed with respect to\n loans originated by the locality or other public body, and (iii) provisions\n that the loan program may approve a loan application submitted within three\n years of the locality’s issuance of a certificate of occupancy or other\n evidence that eligible improvements comply substantially with the plans and\n specifications previously approved by the locality and that such loan may\n refinance or reimburse the property owner for the total costs of such eligible\n improvements;\n\n 4. In the case of a loan program described in clause (ii) of subdivision 3, a\n method for setting requests from owners of eligible properties for financing\n in priority order in the event that requests appear likely to exceed the\n authorization amount of the loan program. Priority shall be given to those\n requests from owners of eligible properties who meet established income or\n assessed property value eligibility requirements;\n\n 5. Identification of a local official authorized to enter into contracts on\n behalf of the locality. A locality may contract with a program administrator\n to administer such loan program;\n\n 6. Identification of any fee that the locality intends to impose on the\n property owner requesting to participate in the loan program to offset the\n cost of administering the loan program. The fee may be assessed as a program\n fee paid by the property owner requesting to participate in the program; and\n\n 7. A draft contract specifying the terms and conditions proposed by the\n locality.\n\nC. The locality may combine the loan payments required by the contracts with\nbillings for water or sewer charges, real property tax assessments, or other\nbillings; in such cases, the locality may establish the order in which loan\npayments will be applied to the different charges. The locality may not combine\nits billings for loan payments required by a contract authorized pursuant to\nthis section with billings of another locality or political subdivision,\nincluding an authority operating pursuant to Chapter 51 (§ 15.2-5100 et\nseq.), unless such locality or political subdivision has given its consent by\nduly adopted resolution or ordinance. The locality may, either by ordinance or\nits program guide, delegate the billing; collection, including enforcement; and\nremittance of C-PACE loan payments to a third party.\n\nD. The locality shall offer private lending institutions the opportunity to\nparticipate in local C-PACE loan programs established pursuant to this section.\n\nE. In order to secure the loan authorized pursuant to this section, the locality\nshall place a voluntary special assessment lien equal in value to the loan\nagainst any property where such eligible improvements are being installed. The\nlocality may bundle or package said loans for transfer to private lenders in\nsuch a manner that would allow the voluntary special assessment liens to remain\nin full force to secure the loans. The placement of a voluntary special\nassessment lien shall not require a new assessment on the value of the real\nproperty that is being improved under the loan program.\n\nF. A voluntary special assessment lien imposed on real property under this\nsection:\n\n 1. Shall have the same priority status as a property tax lien against real\n property, except that such voluntary special assessment lien shall have\n priority over any previously recorded mortgage or deed of trust lien only if\n (i) a written subordination agreement, in a form and substance acceptable to\n each prior lienholder in its sole and exclusive discretion, is executed by the\n holder of each mortgage or deed of trust lien on the property and recorded\n with the special assessment lien in the land records where the property is\n located, and (ii) evidence that the property owner is current on payments on\n loans secured by a mortgage or deed of trust lien on the property and on\n property tax payments, that the property owner is not insolvent or in\n bankruptcy proceedings, and that the title of the benefited property is not in\n dispute is submitted to the locality prior to recording of the special\n assessment lien;\n\n 2. Shall run with the land, and that portion of the assessment under the\n assessment contract that has not yet become due is not eliminated by\n foreclosure of a property tax lien;\n\n 3. May be enforced by the local government in the same manner that a property\n tax lien against real property is enforced by the local government. A local\n government shall be entitled to recover costs and expenses, including attorney\n fees, in a suit to collect a delinquent installment of an assessment in the\n same manner as in a suit to collect a delinquent property tax; and\n\n 4. May incur interest and penalties for delinquent installments of the\n assessment in the same manner as delinquent property taxes.\n\nG. Prior to the enactment of an ordinance pursuant to this section, a public\nhearing shall be held at which interested persons may object to or inquire about\nthe proposed loan program or any of its particulars. The public hearing shall be\npublished twice, with the first notice appearing no more than 28 days before and\nthe second notice appearing no less than seven days before the hearing, in a\nnewspaper of general circulation in the locality.\n\nH. The Department of Energy shall serve as a statewide sponsor for a loan\nprogram that meets the requirements of this section. The Department of Energy\nshall engage a private program administrator through a competitive selection\nprocess to develop the statewide loan program. A locality, by its adoption or\namendment of its C-PACE ordinance described in subsection B, may opt into the\nstatewide C-PACE loan program sponsored by the Department of Energy without\nundertaking any competitive procurement process, provided that the locality\nagrees to execute a locality agreement within 30 days after the adoption or\namendment of its C-PACE ordinance.\n\nHISTORY: 2009, c. 773; 2010, c. 141; 2015, cc. 389, 427; 2019, cc. 564, 753;\n2020, c. 664; 2021, c. 6; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 532; 2022, c. 402; 2023, cc.\n506, 507; 2024, cc. 225, 242; 2025, c. 205.","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}}