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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>85217</law_id><section_number>15.2-2413.5</section_number><catch_line>Establishment or extension of the tourism improvement district</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="15.2">Counties, Cities and Towns</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Powers of Local Government</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="24">Service Districts; Taxes and Assessments for Local Improvements</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="3">Tourism Improvement Districts</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Not earlier than 30 days after the conclusion of the last day of the public <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> held pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Hearing on a proposed tourism improvement district" href="/15.2-2413.4/">15.2-2413.4</a>, the <span class="dictionary">governing body</span> of the <span class="dictionary">locality</span> that conducted the <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> process shall determine: <a id="paragraph-305396" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-2413.5/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Whether the notice of <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> for all <span class="dictionary">hearings</span> required to be held was published and mailed as required by <span class="dictionary">law</span> and is otherwise sufficient; <a id="paragraph-305397" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-2413.5/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Whether all the businesses charged a <span class="dictionary">fee</span> within the boundaries of the proposed <span class="dictionary">tourism improvement district</span> or extension will benefit from the establishment or extension of the <span class="dictionary">tourism improvement district</span>; and <a id="paragraph-305398" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-2413.5/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Whether the establishment or extension of the <span class="dictionary">tourism improvement district</span> is in the public interest. <a id="paragraph-305399" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-2413.5/#A3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If the <span class="dictionary">locality</span> determines the question of subdivision A 3 in the negative, or if the requisite number of owners file objections as provided in subsection B of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Hearing on a proposed tourism improvement district" href="/15.2-2413.4/">15.2-2413.4</a>, the <span class="dictionary">locality</span> shall not establish or extend the <span class="dictionary">tourism improvement district</span>, as applicable. Thereafter, no plan for the establishment or extension of a <span class="dictionary">tourism improvement district</span> to include any <span class="dictionary">business</span> proposed to be included in the disapproved <span class="dictionary">tourism improvement district</span> may be submitted until the expiration of at least one year from the date of disapproval. <a id="paragraph-305400" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-2413.5/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> If the <span class="dictionary">locality</span> shall find that notice was incorrectly or insufficiently given or that any <span class="dictionary">business</span> charged a <span class="dictionary">fee</span> within the boundaries of the proposed <span class="dictionary">tourism improvement district</span> or extension is not benefited thereby or that certain businesses benefited thereby had not been included therein, it shall call a further <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> at a definite place and time not less than 10 days and not more than 30 days after this determination. In the resolution calling such <span class="dictionary">hearing</span>, it shall specify the necessary changes, if any, to the boundaries of the proposed <span class="dictionary">tourism improvement district</span> or extension to be made in <span class="dictionary">order</span> that all of the benefited businesses are included in the general <span class="dictionary">tourism improvement district</span>, and only those businesses deemed benefited shall be subject to <span class="dictionary">fees</span> within such <span class="dictionary">tourism improvement district</span>. Notice of the further <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> shall be published and mailed in the manner provided in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Hearing on a proposed tourism improvement district" href="/15.2-2413.4/">15.2-2413.4</a>, except that, where boundaries are to be altered, this notice shall also specify the manner in which it is proposed to alter the boundaries of the proposed <span class="dictionary">tourism improvement district</span> or extension. The further <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> shall be conducted in the same manner as the original <span class="dictionary">hearing</span>. <a id="paragraph-305401" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-2413.5/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> If a <span class="dictionary">locality</span> determines in the affirmative all questions in subsection A, it may by <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span> establish a <span class="dictionary">tourism improvement district</span> and any <span class="dictionary">ordinances</span> provided for in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Local ordinances related to tourism improvement districts" href="/15.2-2413.6/">15.2-2413.6</a>. <a id="paragraph-305402" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-2413.5/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 500.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
