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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86123</law_id><section_number>33.2-2912</section_number><catch_line>General powers of City of Richmond and Counties of Henrico and Chesterfield</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="33.2">Highways and Other Surface Transportation Systems</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Local and Regional Transportation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="29">Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The City of Richmond and the Counties of Henrico and Chesterfield may enter into and perform <span class="dictionary">contracts</span> or agreements with the <span class="dictionary">Authority</span> providing for furnishing to the <span class="dictionary">Authority</span> one or more of the following cooperative undertakings or any combination thereof:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The preparation, acquisition, loan, or exchange of survey, engineering, borings, construction and other technical reports, studies, plans, and data; <a id="paragraph-308405" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/33.2-2912/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The providing of engineering, planning and other professional and technical services, labor, or other things of value; <a id="paragraph-308406" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/33.2-2912/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> The construction, in whole or in part, of <span class="dictionary">public highways</span>, bridges, tunnels, viaducts, interchanges, connecting highways, grade crossings, and other <span class="dictionary">highway</span> facilities; <a id="paragraph-308407" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/33.2-2912/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> The providing of funds in lump sums or installments to assist in paying the cost of any <span class="dictionary">Authority facility</span> or any Authority undertaking authorized by this chapter or the operation and <span class="dictionary">maintenance</span> thereof; <a id="paragraph-308408" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/33.2-2912/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="5"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> The acquisition and transfer to the Authority of land, including easements, rights-of-way, or other property, useful in the construction, operation, or <span class="dictionary">maintenance</span> of any <span class="dictionary">Authority facility</span>; <a id="paragraph-308409" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/33.2-2912/#5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="6"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> The making of payments or contributions to the Authority for the use of or in compensation for the services rendered by any <span class="dictionary">Authority facility</span> in lieu of the payment of tolls or other charges therefor, and such payments and contributions shall be deemed <span class="dictionary">revenues</span> of the <span class="dictionary">project</span> to the same extent as the tolls, rentals, fees, and other charges collected in the operation of the <span class="dictionary">project</span>; <a id="paragraph-308410" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/33.2-2912/#6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="7"><p><span class="prefix-number">7.</span> When requested by the Authority, the vacating or changing of the location of any public <span class="dictionary">highway</span> or other public way or place or any portion thereof, public utility, sewer, pipe, main, conduit, cable, wire, tower, pole, or other equipment or appliance owned or controlled by or under the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> of either the City of Richmond or the County of Henrico or Chesterfield, in the manner required or authorized by <span class="dictionary">law</span> conferring such power on the City of Richmond or the County of Henrico or Chesterfield, and to construct the same in such new location as shall be designated by the governing body of the City of Richmond or the County of Henrico or Chesterfield, and the cost of vacating or changing the location or reconstruction thereof and any <span class="dictionary">damages</span> resulting therefrom required to be paid by the City of Richmond or County of Henrico or Chesterfield shall be reimbursed by the Authority as a part of the cost of the <span class="dictionary">project</span> in connection with which such expenditures have been made; and <a id="paragraph-308411" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/33.2-2912/#7"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="8"><p><span class="prefix-number">8.</span> The connection of any <span class="dictionary">project</span> of the Authority with the streets, highways, roads, and other public ways in the City of Richmond and in the Counties of Henrico and Chesterfield. <a id="paragraph-308412" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/33.2-2912/#8"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2009, c. 471, &#xA7; 15.2-7012; 2014, c. 805.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
