                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTAL DISTRICTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE (§ 15.2-4304)

A. Upon receipt of the first agricultural and forestal districts application,
the local governing body shall establish an advisory committee which shall
consist of four landowners who are engaged in agricultural or forestal
production, four other landowners of the locality, the commissioner of revenue
or the local government&#8217;s chief property assessment officer, and a member
of the local governing body. The members of the committee shall be appointed by
and serve at the pleasure of the local governing body. The advisory committee
shall elect a chairman and a vice-chairman and elect or appoint a secretary who
need not be a member of the committee. The advisory committee shall serve
without pay but the locality may reimburse each member for actual and necessary
expenses incurred in the performance of his duties. Any expenditures of the
committee shall be within the amounts appropriated for such purpose by the local
governing body. The committee shall advise the local planning commission and the
local governing body and assist in creating, reviewing, modifying, continuing or
terminating districts within the locality. In particular, the committee shall
render expert advice as to the nature of farming and forestry and agricultural
and forestal resources within the district and their relation to the entire
locality.

B. The local governing body may designate the planning commission to act for and
in lieu of an agricultural and forestal districts advisory committee if the
membership of the planning commission includes at least four landowners who are
engaged in agricultural or forestal production.

HISTORY: 1977, c. 681, § 15.1-1510; 1987, c. 552; 1989, c. 52; 1997, c. 587;
2011, cc. 344, 355.