                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LOCAL ORDINANCES RELATED TO TOURISM IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS (§ 15.2-2413.6)

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

   1. Activities and other additional services required for tourism promotion or
   events or for enhancement of the tourism improvement district;

   2. Activities in the tourism improvement district that will fund the promotion
   of tourism activities in the tourism improvement district, including
   acquiring, constructing, installing, or maintaining capital improvements;

   3. Operating and maintaining any tourism improvement district activity;

   4. The charging of fees on all benefited businesses within a tourism
   improvement district, which shall be charged on the basis of the estimated
   benefit to such businesses within the tourism improvement district;

   5. The classifying of businesses for purposes of determining the benefit to
   the businesses of the activities provided pursuant to this article;

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

   7. Forming a tourism improvement district in cooperation with, and that
   includes, other localities.

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

HISTORY: 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 500.