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In all cases, decisions of the Authority shall require the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members of the Authority present and voting and two-thirds of the representatives of the counties and cities embraced by the Authority who are present and voting and whose counties and cities include at least two-thirds of the population embraced by the Authority; however, no motion to fund a specific facility or service shall fail because of this population criterion if such facility or service is not located or to be located or provided or to be provided within the county or city whose representative’s sole negative vote caused the facility or service to fail to meet the population criterion. The population of counties and cities embraced by the Authority shall be the population as determined by the most recently preceding decennial census, except that once the population estimates for July 1 of the fifth year are made available then the population of each county and city shall be adjusted on the basis of population estimates made by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service of the University of Virginia.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":256672,"text":"A majority of the Authority, which majority shall include at least a majority of the representatives of the counties and cities embraced by the Authority, shall constitute a quorum. Decisions of the Authority shall require a quorum and shall be in accordance with voting procedures established by the Authority. In all cases, decisions of the Authority shall require the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members of the Authority present and voting and two-thirds of the representatives of the counties and cities embraced by the Authority who are present and voting and whose counties and cities include at least two-thirds of the population embraced by the Authority; however, no motion to fund a specific facility or service shall fail because of this population criterion if such facility or service is not located or to be located or provided or to be provided within the county or city whose representative’s sole negative vote caused the facility or service to fail to meet the population criterion. 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This law was first created in 2002. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 846<\/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 2 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 2014, chapter 805<\/a>; in 2016, chapters 224<\/a> and 375<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":207385,"object_type":"law","relational_id":71206,"identifier":"33.2-2504","token":"33.2\/IV\/25\/33.2-2504","url":"\/33.2-2504\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/33.2-2504\/","token":"33.2\/IV\/25\/33.2-2504","dublin_core":{"Title":"Decisions of Authority","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 33.2-2504","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A majority of the Authority, which majority shall include at least a majority of the representatives of the counties and cities embraced by the Authority, shall constitute a quorum. Decisions of the Authority shall require a quorum and shall be in accordance with voting procedures established by the Authority. In all cases, decisions of the Authority shall require the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members of the Authority present and voting and two-thirds of the representatives of the counties and cities embraced by the Authority who are present and voting and whose counties and cities include at least two-thirds of the population embraced by the Authority; however, no motion<\/span> to fund a specific facility or service shall fail because of this population criterion if such facility or service is not located or to be located or provided or to be provided within the county or city whose representative’s sole negative vote caused the facility or service to fail to meet the population criterion. The population of counties and cities embraced by the Authority shall be the population as determined by the most recently preceding decennial census, except that once the population estimates for July 1 of the fifth year are made available then the population of each county and city shall be adjusted on the basis of population estimates made by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service of the University of Virginia.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDECISIONS OF AUTHORITY (\u00a7 33.2-2504)\n\nA majority of the Authority, which majority shall include at least a majority of\nthe representatives of the counties and cities embraced by the Authority, shall\nconstitute a quorum. Decisions of the Authority shall require a quorum and shall\nbe in accordance with voting procedures established by the Authority. In all\ncases, decisions of the Authority shall require the affirmative vote of\ntwo-thirds of the members of the Authority present and voting and two-thirds of\nthe representatives of the counties and cities embraced by the Authority who are\npresent and voting and whose counties and cities include at least two-thirds of\nthe population embraced by the Authority; however, no motion to fund a specific\nfacility or service shall fail because of this population criterion if such\nfacility or service is not located or to be located or provided or to be\nprovided within the county or city whose representative’s sole negative\nvote caused the facility or service to fail to meet the population criterion.\nThe population of counties and cities embraced by the Authority shall be the\npopulation as determined by the most recently preceding decennial census, except\nthat once the population estimates for July 1 of the fifth year are made\navailable then the population of each county and city shall be adjusted on the\nbasis of population estimates made by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public\nService of the University of Virginia.\n\nHISTORY: 2002, c. 846, \u00a7 15.2-4834; 2014, c. 805; 2016, cc. 224, 375.","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}}