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The loan shall be repaid over ten years at no interest or over twenty years at an annual rate of interest which shall be two percentage points below the rate for municipal bonds given in the latest Bond Buyer Twenty Bond Index appearing before the loan is made. Any balance of a loan not paid off as required by this section shall be paid off as provided in \u00a7 29.1-101.4. The Department shall approve the design of the fishway prior to the making of any grant or loan from the Fund pursuant to this section.\n\t\tAll local governments borrowing money from the Fund are authorized to take any action, adopt any proceedings and make and carry out any contracts that are contemplated by this chapter. 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This law was first created in 1989. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 5 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 1989 \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 1992, chapters 464 and 887.<\/p>","references":[{"id":57820,"section_number":"29.1-101.2","catch_line":"Creation and management of Fund","order_by":null,"url":"\/29.1-101.2\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":65107,"section_number":"29.1-101.4","catch_line":"Collection of money due to the Fund","order_by":null,"url":"\/29.1-101.4\/"}],"permalink":{"id":192317,"object_type":"law","relational_id":77686,"identifier":"29.1-101.5","token":"29.1\/1\/1.1\/29.1-101.5","url":"\/29.1-101.5\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/29.1-101.5\/","token":"29.1\/1\/1.1\/29.1-101.5","dublin_core":{"Title":"Grants and loans to local governments","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 29.1-101.5","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

After consultation with the Commissioner of the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, the Department<\/span> may offer to finance the construction of fishways for any local government which owns a dam or other artificial impediment to the free passage of anadromous fish. The Fund will pay for seventy-five percent of the entire cost of the fishway, and will lend the balance of the cost to the local government. The loan shall be repaid over ten years at no interest or over twenty years at an annual rate of interest which shall be two percentage points below the rate for municipal bonds<\/span> given in the latest Bond<\/span> Buyer Twenty Bond<\/span> Index appearing before the loan is made. Any balance of a loan not paid off as required by this section shall be paid off as provided in \u00a7 29.1-101.4<\/a>. The Department<\/span> shall approve the design of the fishway prior to the making of any grant or loan from the Fund pursuant to this section.\n\t\tAll local governments borrowing money from the Fund are authorized to take any action, adopt any proceedings and make and carry out any contracts<\/span> that are contemplated by this chapter. Such contracts<\/span> need not be identical among all local governments, but may be structured as determined by the Department<\/span> according to the needs of the contracting local governments and the Fund.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nGRANTS AND LOANS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS (\u00a7 29.1-101.5)\n\nAfter consultation with the Commissioner of the Virginia Marine Resources\nCommission, the Department may offer to finance the construction of fishways for\nany local government which owns a dam or other artificial impediment to the free\npassage of anadromous fish. The Fund will pay for seventy-five percent of the\nentire cost of the fishway, and will lend the balance of the cost to the local\ngovernment. The loan shall be repaid over ten years at no interest or over\ntwenty years at an annual rate of interest which shall be two percentage points\nbelow the rate for municipal bonds given in the latest Bond Buyer Twenty Bond\nIndex appearing before the loan is made. Any balance of a loan not paid off as\nrequired by this section shall be paid off as provided in \u00a7 29.1-101.4. The\nDepartment shall approve the design of the fishway prior to the making of any\ngrant or loan from the Fund pursuant to this section.\n\t\tAll local governments borrowing money from the Fund are authorized to take any\naction, adopt any proceedings and make and carry out any contracts that are\ncontemplated by this chapter. Such contracts need not be identical among all\nlocal governments, but may be structured as determined by the Department\naccording to the needs of the contracting local governments and the Fund.\n\nHISTORY: 1989, c. 5, \u00a7 10.1-1217; 1992, cc. 464, 887.","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}}