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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69226</law_id><section_number>2.2-4900</section_number><catch_line>Authority of Governor to contract debts</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="2.2">Administration of Government</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Administration of State Government</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="B">Transaction of Public Business</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="49">Public Debt; Issuance of Bonds and Certificates of Indebtedness</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The Governor may <span class="dictionary">contract</span> debts and <span class="dictionary">issue</span> obligations in <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> thereof upon the terms and conditions determined by the Governor to meet casual deficits in the revenue or in anticipation of the collection of revenues of the Commonwealth for the then current fiscal year within the amount of authorized appropriations, subject to the limitations and conditions of Article X, Section 9 (a) (2) of the Constitution of Virginia. The Governor may sell such obligations in a manner, either at public or private sale, and for a price as he determines to be in the best interests of the Commonwealth.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 2-269; 1966, c. 677, &#xA7; 2.1-303; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 121; 2001, c. 844.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
