                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

TRANSFERS OF PROPERTY, APPROPRIATIONS AND CONTRACTS BY PARTICIPATING LOCALITIES
(§ 15.2-5605)

Each participating locality is authorized and empowered:

1. To transfer jurisdiction over, to lease, lend, grant or convey to the
authority at its request, with or without consideration, such real or personal
property as may be necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of the
authority, upon such terms and conditions as such participating locality shall
determine to be for its best interests;

2. To make appropriations and to provide funds for any purpose of the authority,
including the acquisition, construction, improvement and operation of any
project or facilities thereof and payment of principal and interest on its
indebtedness;

3. To enter into contracts agreeing to carry out any of the provisions set forth
in subdivisions 1 or 2, providing for the operation and maintenance of all or
any part of a project or otherwise facilitating the construction, development,
operation or financing of all or any part of a project; and

4. To enter into leases with the authority pursuant to which a project or any
part thereof is leased to the locality. The lease may be for a term ending not
later than the end of the then current fiscal year of the locality and renewable
for additional terms of one fiscal year each or as may be agreed upon by the
parties provided that the total of the original term and any renewals shall in
no event exceed fifty years. Each renewal shall be at the option of such
locality and the lease may provide that it is renewed for an additional term if
the locality fails to cancel the lease in writing on or prior to sixty days
before the end of the then current term. Rentals under such lease may be
computed at fixed amounts or by a formula based on any factors provided therein
and the rentals payable may include provision for all or any part of or a share
of the amounts necessary (i) to pay or provide for the expenses of operation and
maintenance of a project, (ii) to provide for the payment of principal and
interest on any bonds of the authority, and (iii) to maintain such reserves or
sinking funds as may be required by the terms of any contract of the authority
or as may be deemed necessary or desirable by the authority. Such payments shall
be payable only from revenues of the locality available during the fiscal year
during which the lease is in effect. Notwithstanding the provisions of &#xA7;
15.2-5606 or any other provision hereof the authority or the locality leasing
the project may contract with a person as sublessee or operator of the project
at a compensation to be agreed upon by the parties.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 15-714.18; 1962, c. 393, § 6, § 15.1-1276; 1973, c.
238; 1975, c. 109; 1997, c. 587.