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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>84781</law_id><section_number>3.2-3101</section_number><catch_line>Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission created; purposes</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>3.2-3100</reference><reference>3.2-3112</reference><reference>58.1-439.17</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Boards, Councils, Foundations, and Commissions</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="D">Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission and Virginia Tobacco Region Revolving Fund</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="31">Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The Tobacco Region Revitalization <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> is created as a body corporate and a political subdivision of the Commonwealth and as such shall have, and is vested with, all of the politic and corporate powers as are set forth in this chapter. The <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> is established for the purposes of determining the appropriate recipients of moneys in the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization <span class="dictionary">Fund</span> and causing distribution of such moneys for the purposes provided in this chapter, including using moneys in the <span class="dictionary">Fund</span> to: (i) provide payments to tobacco farmers as compensation for the adverse economic effects resulting from loss of investment in specialized tobacco equipment and barns and lost tobacco production opportunities associated with a decline in quota; and (ii) revitalize tobacco dependent communities. The <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> shall have only those powers enumerated in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Powers and duties of the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission" href="/3.2-3103/">3.2-3103</a>.</p></section></text><history>1999, cc. 880, 962, &#xA7; 9-381; 2001, c. 844, &#xA7; 3.1-1107; 2008, c. 860; 2015, cc. 399, 433.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
