                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DECLARATION OF PUBLIC PURPOSE; VIRGINIA COMMERCIAL SPACE FLIGHT AUTHORITY
CREATED (§ 2.2-2202)

The General Assembly has determined that there exists in the Commonwealth a need
to promote industrial and economic development and scientific and technological
research and development through the development and promotion of the commercial
and government aerospace industry.
		In order to facilitate and coordinate the advancement of these needs, there is
hereby created the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority, with the powers
and duties set forth in this article, as a public body corporate and as a
political subdivision of the Commonwealth. The Authority is constituted as a
public instrumentality exercising public functions, and the exercise by the
Authority of the powers and duties conferred by this article shall be deemed and
held to be the performance of an essential government function of the
Commonwealth and a public purpose.

HISTORY: 1995, c. 758, § 9-266.3; 2001, c. 844; 2012, cc. 779, 817; 2017, c.
633.