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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56015</law_id><section_number>15.2-5200</section_number><catch_line>Creation of commission</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-1535</reference><reference>15.2-5216</reference><reference>2.2-4345</reference></referred_to_by><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="IV">Other Governmental Entities</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="52">Hospital or Health Center Commissions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>In each <span class="dictionary">locality</span>, and in each group of two or more of such political subdivisions whose governing bodies declare by resolution that the <span class="dictionary">locality</span> needs a <span class="dictionary">hospital or health center</span>, a <span class="dictionary">hospital or health center</span> commission shall be created as a public body corporate, with such public and corporate powers as are set forth in this chapter. Such commission shall not transact any business or exercise its powers until the <span class="dictionary">governing body</span> of the subdivision, or the governing bodies of the subdivisions, declares the need for the <span class="dictionary">hospital or health center</span> commission to function therein.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 32-276; 1950, p. 243; 1979, c. 719, &#xA7; 15.1-1514; 1997, c. 587.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
