                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FURTHER POWERS OF PUBLIC BODIES (§ 10.1-1702)

A. A public body shall have the powers necessary or convenient to carry out the
purposes and provisions of this chapter, including the following powers:

   1. To borrow funds and make expenditures;

   2. To advance or accept advances of public funds;

   3. To apply for and accept and utilize grants and any other assistance from
   the federal government and any other public or private sources, to give such
   security as may be required and to enter into and carry out contracts or
   agreements in connection with the assistance, and to include in any contract
   for assistance from the federal government such conditions imposed pursuant to
   federal laws as the public body may deem reasonable and appropriate and which
   are not inconsistent with the purposes of this chapter;

   4. To make and execute contracts and other instruments;

   5. In connection with the real property acquired and designated for the
   purposes of this chapter, to provide or to arrange or contract for the
   provision, construction, maintenance, operation, or repair by any person or
   agency, public or private, of services, privileges, works, streets, roads,
   public utilities or other facilities or structures that may be necessary to
   the provision, preservation, maintenance and management of the property as
   open-space land;

   6. To insure or provide for the insurance of any real or personal property or
   operations of the public body against any risks or hazards, including the
   power to pay premiums on the insurance;

   7. To demolish or dispose of any structures or facilities which may be
   detrimental to or inconsistent with the use of real property as open-space
   land; and

   8. To exercise its functions and powers under this chapter jointly or
   cooperatively with public bodies of one or more states, if they are so
   authorized by state law, and with one or more public bodies of this
   Commonwealth, and to enter into agreements for joint or cooperative action.

B. For the purposes of this chapter, the Commonwealth or a county, city or town
may:

   1. Appropriate funds;

   2. Issue and sell its general obligation bonds in the manner and within the
   limitations prescribed by the applicable laws of the Commonwealth;

   3. Exercise its powers under this chapter through a board or commission, or
   through such office or officers as its governing body by resolution determines
   or as the Governor determines in the case of the Commonwealth; and

   4. Levy taxes and assessments.

HISTORY: 1966, c. 461, § 10-154; 1988, c. 891.