                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FINDINGS OF FACT (§ 15.2-6001)

The economy of Southwest Virginia has not kept pace with that of the rest of the
Commonwealth. The economic problems of Southwest Virginia are due in large part
to its present inability to diversify. The Southwest has suffered, and continues
to suffer, widespread unemployment in great disproportion to the rest of the
Commonwealth.
		The Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority will assist the seven
county and one city coal producing areas of the Commonwealth to achieve some
degree of economic stability.
		It is hereby further declared that the foregoing is a public purpose and use
for which public moneys may be spent and such activity will serve a public
purpose in providing jobs to the citizens of the Commonwealth.

HISTORY: 1988, c. 833, § 15.1-1636; 1997, c. 587.