                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FINDINGS OF FACT (§ 15.2-6201)

The economy of the Alleghany-Highlands region has not kept pace with that of the
rest of the Commonwealth. The economic problems of the Alleghany-Highlands
region are due in large part to its inability to diversify. The region has
suffered, and continues to suffer, widespread unemployment in great
disproportion to the rest of the Commonwealth.
		The Alleghany-Highlands Economic Development Authority will assist this region
of the Commonwealth to achieve a greater degree of economic stability.
		It is hereby further declared that the foregoing is a public purpose and use
for which public moneys may be spent and such activity will serve a public
purpose in providing jobs to the citizens of the Commonwealth.

HISTORY: 1997, c. 587.