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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>82496</law_id><section_number>15.2-951</section_number><catch_line>Acquisition, disposition and use of personal property by localities generally</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="9">General Powers of Local Governments</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="5">Additional Powers</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Localities, for the purposes of exercising any of their powers and duties and performing any of their functions, may acquire by gift, bequest, purchase, lease, or installment purchase <span class="dictionary">contract</span>; and may own and make use of and may grant security interests in, sell and otherwise dispose of, within and outside the localities, personal property, including any interest, right or estate therein. In addition, localities may sell and otherwise dispose of surplus <span class="dictionary">materials</span>, as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Disposition of surplus materials" href="/2.2-1124/">2.2-1124</a>, by public sale or auction, including online public auction, provided that such sale or auction conforms with the procedures set forth in subdivisions B 3 through B 5 and subdivision B 8 of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Disposition of surplus materials" href="/2.2-1124/">2.2-1124</a>. In any instance where personal property in any of the following categories: school or transit bus fleet, vehicle fleet, or road construction equipment is sold with the <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to lease back the property, when the value of the proposed sale amount exceeds $2,000,000 approval by the <span class="dictionary">governing body</span>, after notice and a public <span class="dictionary">hearing</span>, shall be required. The public <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> shall be advertised once in a newspaper having general circulation in the <span class="dictionary">locality</span> at least seven days prior to the date set for the <span class="dictionary">hearing</span>. Any debt incurred by a municipality pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be subject to the limitations imposed by Article VII, Section 10 of the Constitution of Virginia.</p></section></text><history>1986, c. 573, &#xA7; 15.1-526.4; 1988, c. 810; 1989, c. 340, &#xA7; 15.1-29.17; 1997, c. 587; 2005, c. 531; 2006, cc. 468, 493.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
