                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PUBLICATION AND NOTICE; PUBLIC HEARING; ADJOURNMENT; MONEYS NOT TO BE PAID OUT
UNTIL APPROPRIATED (§ 15.2-2506)

Notice of one or more public hearings shall be given in accordance with §
15.2-1427. Such notice shall, at a minimum, include a summary of the total
revenues and expenditures for each appropriated fund and the current and
proposed real estate and personal property tax levies. Any locality not having a
newspaper of general circulation may in lieu of the foregoing notice provide for
notice by written or printed handbills, posted at such places as it may direct.
The hearing shall be held at least seven days prior to the approval of the
budget as prescribed in § 15.2-2503. With respect to the school division
budget, which shall include the estimated required local match, such hearing
shall be held at least seven days prior to the approval of that budget as
prescribed in § 22.1-93. With respect to the budget of a constitutional
officer, if the proposed budget reduces funding of such officer at a rate
greater than the average rate of reduced funding for other agencies appropriated
through such locality&#8217;s general fund, exclusive of the school division,
the locality shall give written notice to such constitutional officer at least
14 days prior to adoption of the budget. If a constitutional officer determines
that the proposed budget cuts would impair the performance of his statutory
duties, such constitutional officer shall make a written objection to the local
governing body within seven days after receipt of the written notice and shall
deliver a copy of such objection to the Compensation Board. The local governing
body shall consider the written objection of such constitutional officer. The
governing body may adjourn such hearing from time to time. The fact of such
notice and hearing shall be entered of record in the minute book.
		In no event, including school division budgets, shall such preparation,
publication, and approval be deemed to be an appropriation. No money shall be
paid out or become available to be paid out for any contemplated expenditure
unless and until there has first been made an annual, semiannual, quarterly, or
monthly appropriation for such contemplated expenditure by the governing body,
except that funds appropriated in a county having adopted the county executive
form of government for multiyear capital projects and outstanding grants may be
carried over from year to year without being reappropriated.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 15-577; 1956, Ex. Sess., c. 67; 1959, Ex. Sess., c. 69;
1962, c. 623, § 15.1-162; 1976, c. 762; 1978, cc. 126, 551; 1984, c. 485; 1997,
c. 587; 2009, c. 280; 2014, cc. 360, 589; 2021, c. 8; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 155;
2024, cc. 225, 242.