                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

POWERS OF A TIER-CITY (§ 15.2-3549)

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, any city located entirely
within the boundary of any county proposing to consolidate with such county, and
which becomes a tier-city shall have, mutatis mutandis, all the powers, duties
and responsibilities of a town together with such additional powers as may be
granted it by law, general or special. The appropriate provisions of the charter
for such city may be made a part of the consolidation agreement and in that
event shall become the charter of such tier-city, subject to the subsequent
approval of the General Assembly. Such tier-city established pursuant to this
section shall continue to exercise such powers and elect such officers as the
tier-city charter may authorize and such other powers as tier-cities or towns
exercise under general law. Except for those powers reserved to the tier-city in
the consolidation agreement, the consolidated county shall exercise such powers
in the tier-city as are exercised by counties in towns. Tier-cities shall
receive from the Commonwealth financial assistance in the same manner and to the
same extent as is provided towns. A tier-city may transfer all or part of the
revenues it receives, the services it performs, its facilities, or other assets
to the county by agreement of the governing bodies. The governing bodies may
provide by agreement for the assumption of all or part of the tier-city&#8217;s
debt by the consolidated county. The tier-city boundaries within the county may
be established initially as agreed to and provided for in the consolidation
agreement.

HISTORY: 1984, c. 695, § 15.1-1146.1:1; 1997, c. 587.