                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CREATION OF LOCAL DEFENSE PRODUCTION ZONES (§ 58.1-3853)

A. As used in this section, unless the context requires a different meaning:
			&#8220;Defense contractor&#8221; means a business, other than a defense
production business, that is primarily engaged in providing services in support
of national defense, including but not limited to logistics and technical
support.
			&#8220;Defense production business&#8221; means a business engaged in the
design, development, or production of materials, components, or equipment
required to meet the needs of national defense. A locality may also include as a
defense production business any business that performs functions ancillary to or
in support of the design, development, or production of such materials,
components, or equipment.

B. Any city, county, or town may establish, by ordinance, one or more defense
production and support services zones. Each locality may grant incentives and
provide certain regulatory flexibility in a defense production and support
services zone.

C. The incentives may be provided to defense contractors or defense production
businesses located in a defense production and support services zone for up to
20 years and may include, but not be limited to (i) reduction of permit fees,
(ii) reduction of user fees, and (iii) reduction of any type of gross receipts
tax. In addition, local governing bodies are authorized to enter into agreements
for the payment of economic development incentive grants to defense contractors
or defense production businesses located in defense production and support
services zones with payment of the grants conditioned upon the businesses making
certain real property or capital investments, creating and maintaining new jobs,
or performing or meeting other economic development objectives.

D. The governing body may also provide for regulatory flexibility in such zone
that may include, but not be limited to (i) special zoning for the district,
(ii) permit process reform, (iii) exemption from ordinances, and (iv) any other
incentive adopted by ordinance, which shall be binding upon the locality for a
period of up to 20 years.

E. Each locality establishing a defense production and support services zone
pursuant to this section may also adopt a local enterprise zone development
taxation program for the defense production and support services zone as
provided in &#xA7; 58.1-3245.12.

F. The establishment of a defense production and support services zone shall not
preclude the area from also being designated as an enterprise zone.

HISTORY: 2011, cc. 875, 877; 2012, c. 91.