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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 378 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 1964 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. 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 1966, chapter 81; in 2006, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?061+ful+CHAP0784\">784<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":208579,"object_type":"law","relational_id":81303,"identifier":"36-52.1","token":"36\/1\/7\/36-52.1","url":"\/36-52.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/36-52.1\/","token":"36\/1\/7\/36-52.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Authority for localities to create conservation or redevelopment areas","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 36-52.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>A <span class=\"dictionary\">locality<\/span> has no authority to create conservation or <span class=\"dictionary\">redevelopment areas<\/span>, except through a redevelopment and <span class=\"dictionary\">housing authority<\/span> and only in accordance with this chapter.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nAUTHORITY FOR LOCALITIES TO CREATE CONSERVATION OR REDEVELOPMENT AREAS (\u00a7\n36-52.1)\n\nA locality has no authority to create conservation or redevelopment areas,\nexcept through a redevelopment and housing authority and only in accordance with\nthis chapter.\n\nHISTORY: 1964, c. 378; 1966, c. 81; 2006, c. 784.","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}}