                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LOCAL ORDINANCES RELATED TO BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT AND RECRUITMENT DISTRICTS (§
15.2-2413.17)

A. Any locality establishing a business improvement and recruitment district may
enact ordinances on any of the following subjects that provide for:

   1. Activities and other additional services required for business promotion,
   improvements to existing businesses, economic development, encouragement and
   recruitment for businesses to locate or relocate, as applicable, into the
   business improvement and recruitment district, or for enhancement of the
   business improvement and recruitment district;

   2. Activities in the business improvement and recruitment district that will
   fund the activities and other additional services of subdivision 1;

   3. Operation and maintenance of any business improvement and recruitment
   district activity;

   4. The charging of fees on all benefited businesses within a business
   improvement and recruitment district;

   5. A process by which businesses charged a fee pursuant to this article may be
   eligible for a reduction in the taxes levied by a locality pursuant to Chapter
   37 (&#xA7; 58.1-3700 et seq.) of Title 58.1 in the business improvement and
   recruitment district;

   6. A process for the collection of revenues from fees from benefited
   businesses; and

   7. Formation of a business improvement and recruitment district in cooperation
   with, and that includes, other localities.

B. After establishing a business improvement and recruitment district, a
locality shall not decrease the level of publicly funded business services and
business recruitment services in a business improvement and recruitment district
existing prior to the creation of such district.

C. Nothing in this article shall be construed to prevent a locality from using
the provisions of Article 1 (&#xA7; 15.2-2400 et seq.) to establish a business
improvement district or business improvement and recruitment district.

HISTORY: 2023, c. 745.