                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REPAIR OF FOUNDATION DAMAGE IN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY (§ 15.2-1228)

Chesterfield County may by ordinance provide that the county may use public
funds to repair existing residential dwellings damaged by foundation failures
caused by high clay content soil subject to moisture-related shrinking and
swelling. Such ordinance may place conditions on the use or expenditure of such
public funds. The expenditure of such public funds by the county under this
section during a fiscal year shall not exceed two percent of the county&#8217;s
locally derived revenues from that fiscal year.
		For purposes of this section, &#8220;public funds&#8221; includes only general
tax revenues from real and personal property and does not include any special
fee assessment, or other tax or charge, however denominated.
		The county shall keep funds collected for building permit fees and any funds
received from any other fees collected under any special act in separate
accounts, and separate from other locally derived revenues, and may not use fees
collected for building permits or fees collected under any special act, directly
or indirectly, for purposes authorized under this section.

HISTORY: 1988, c. 862, § 15.1-37.3:9; 1993, c. 791; 1995, c. 393; 1997, c. 587;
2019, c. 632.