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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62024</law_id><section_number>15.2-940</section_number><catch_line>Expenditures for promoting resources and advantages of locality</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-1303</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="II">Powers of Local Government</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="9">General Powers of Local Governments</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="3">Economic Development; Tourism; Historic Preservation</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any <span class="dictionary">locality</span> may, in its discretion, expend funds from the locally derived revenues of the <span class="dictionary">locality</span> for the purpose of promoting the resources and advantages of the <span class="dictionary">locality</span>. Such purpose shall include, without limiting the generality thereof, watershed projects and expenditures in connection therewith.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 15-11 through 15-13; 1952, c. 117; 1956, c. 25; 1960, cc. 168, 176; 1962, c. 623, &#xA7; 15.1-10; 1994, c. 593; 1997, c. 587.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
