                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ADDITIONAL POWERS OF THE AUTHORITY; OPERATION OF PROJECTS (§ 23.1-2405)

A. The Authority may acquire, plan, design, construct, own, rent as landlord or
tenant, operate, control, remove, renovate, enlarge, equip, and maintain,
directly or through stock or nonstock corporations or other entities, any
project as defined in this chapter. Such projects may be owned or operated by
the Authority or other parties or jointly by the Authority and other parties and
may be operated within or outside the Commonwealth, so long as (i) their
operations are necessary or desirable to assist the Authority in carrying out
its public purposes within the Commonwealth and (ii) any private benefit
resulting to any such other private parties from any such project is merely
incidental to the public benefit of the project.

B. In the operation of hospitals and other health care and related facilities,
the Authority may make and enforce all policies, procedures, and regulations
necessary or desirable for such operation, including those relating to the
conditions under which the privilege of practicing may be available in such
facilities, the admission and treatment of patients, the procedures for
determining the qualification of patients for indigent care or other programs,
and the protection of patients and employees, provided that such policies,
procedures, and regulations do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion,
color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

HISTORY: 1996, cc. 905, 1046, § 23-50.16:9; 2016, c. 588; 2020, c. 1137.