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To these ends, the Department shall have the power to comply with such conditions and execute such agreements as may be necessary, convenient or desirable.\n\t\tTo do all acts necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this subtitle.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":296640,"text":"The Director shall have the following general powers:\n\t\tTo employ personnel and assistance necessary for the operation of the Department and the purposes of this chapter.\n\t\tTo make and enter into all contracts and agreements necessary or incidental to the performance of the duties of the Department and the execution of its powers under this chapter, including, but not limited to, contracts with the United States, other states, and agencies and governmental subdivisions of the Commonwealth.\n\t\tTo accept grants from the United States government and agencies and instrumentalities thereof and any other source. 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 408 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 1979 \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 1988, chapter 765.<\/p>","references":[{"id":79532,"section_number":"54.1-2354.3","catch_line":"Common Interest Community Ombudsman; appointment; powers and duties","order_by":null,"url":"\/54.1-2354.3\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":240505,"object_type":"law","relational_id":82752,"identifier":"54.1-303","token":"54.1\/II\/3\/54.1-303","url":"\/54.1-303\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/54.1-303\/","token":"54.1\/II\/3\/54.1-303","dublin_core":{"Title":"General powers of Director","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 54.1-303","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The <span class=\"dictionary\">Director<\/span> shall have the following general powers:\n\t\tTo employ personnel and assistance necessary for the operation of the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> and the purposes of this chapter.\n\t\tTo make and enter into all <span class=\"dictionary\">contracts<\/span> and agreements necessary or incidental to the performance of the duties of the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> and the execution of its powers under this chapter, including, but not limited to, <span class=\"dictionary\">contracts<\/span> with the United States, other states, and agencies and governmental subdivisions of the Commonwealth.\n\t\tTo accept grants from the United States government and agencies and instrumentalities thereof and any other source. 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To these ends, the Department\nshall have the power to comply with such conditions and execute such agreements\nas may be necessary, convenient or desirable.\n\t\tTo do all acts necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this\nsubtitle.\n\nHISTORY: 1979, c. 408, \u00a7 54-1.32; 1988, c. 765.","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}}