{"formats":[{"name":"JSON","format":"json","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-json\/36-159.json"},{"name":"Plain Text","format":"text","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-text\/36-159.txt"},{"name":"XML","format":"xml","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-xml\/36-159.xml"},{"name":"HTML","format":"html","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-html\/36-159.html"}],"law_id":77604,"edition_id":1,"section_id":77604,"structure_id":14292,"section_number":"36-159","catch_line":"Administration","history":"2000, cc. 789, 795.","full_text":"The Department shall administer this chapter and shall have the following powers and duties:\n\n1\n\nTo establish the process for determining what areas qualify as housing revitalization zones. Such criteria shall be the minimum required for implementation of the purpose of this chapter;2\n\nTo monitor the implementation and operation of this chapter;3\n\nTo conduct a continuing evaluation program of housing revitalization zones;4\n\nTo assist counties, cities and towns in obtaining the reduction of regulations within housing revitalization zones; and5\n\nTo administer and enforce the regulations promulgated by the Board of Housing and Community Development.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":278401,"text":"The Department shall administer this chapter and shall have the following powers and duties:","type":"section","prefixes":[""],"prefix":"","entire_prefix":"","prefix_anchor":"","level":1,"next_prefix":"1"},"1":{"id":278402,"text":"To establish the process for determining what areas qualify as housing revitalization zones. 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?001+ful+CHAP0789\">789<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?001+ful+CHAP0795\">795<\/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.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":208863,"object_type":"law","relational_id":77604,"identifier":"36-159","token":"36\/11\/36-159","url":"\/36-159\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/36-159\/","token":"36\/11\/36-159","dublin_core":{"Title":"Administration","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 36-159","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> shall administer this chapter and shall have the following powers and duties:<\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"1\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">1.<\/span> To establish the process for determining what areas qualify as <span class=\"dictionary\">housing revitalization zones<\/span>. Such criteria shall be the minimum required for implementation of the purpose of this chapter; <a id=\"paragraph-278402\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/36-159\/#1\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"2\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">2.<\/span> To monitor the implementation and operation of this chapter; <a id=\"paragraph-278403\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/36-159\/#2\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"3\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">3.<\/span> To conduct a continuing evaluation program of <span class=\"dictionary\">housing revitalization zones<\/span>; <a id=\"paragraph-278404\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/36-159\/#3\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"4\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">4.<\/span> To assist counties, cities and towns in obtaining the reduction of regulations within <span class=\"dictionary\">housing revitalization zones<\/span>; and <a id=\"paragraph-278405\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/36-159\/#4\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"5\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">5.<\/span> To administer and enforce the regulations promulgated by the Board of Housing and Community Development. <a id=\"paragraph-278406\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/36-159\/#5\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nADMINISTRATION (\u00a7 36-159)\n\nThe Department shall administer this chapter and shall have the following powers\nand duties:\n\n1. To establish the process for determining what areas qualify as housing\nrevitalization zones. Such criteria shall be the minimum required for\nimplementation of the purpose of this chapter;\n\n2. To monitor the implementation and operation of this chapter;\n\n3. To conduct a continuing evaluation program of housing revitalization zones;\n\n4. To assist counties, cities and towns in obtaining the reduction of\nregulations within housing revitalization zones; and\n\n5. To administer and enforce the regulations promulgated by the Board of Housing\nand Community Development.\n\nHISTORY: 2000, cc. 789, 795.","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}}