                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FUNDS FOR ACCESS ROADS TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SITES AND AIRPORTS; CONSTRUCTION,
MAINTENANCE, ETC., OF SUCH ROADS (§ 33.2-1509)

A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there shall be appropriated to
the Board funds derived from taxes on motor fuels, fees and charges on motor
vehicle registrations, road taxes, or any other state revenue allocated for
highway purposes, which shall be used by the Board for the purposes specified in
this section, after deducting the costs of administration before any of such
funds are distributed and allocated for any road or street purposes.
			Such funds shall be expended by the Board for constructing, reconstructing,
maintaining, or improving access roads within localities to economic development
sites on which manufacturing, processing, research and development facilities,
distribution centers, regional service centers, corporate headquarters, or other
establishments that also meet basic employer criteria as determined by the
Virginia Economic Development Partnership in consultation with the Virginia
Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity will be built under firm
contract or are already constructed and to licensed, public-use airports; in the
event there is no such establishment or airport already constructed or for which
the construction is under firm contract, a locality may guarantee to the Board
by bond or other acceptable device that such will occur and, should no
establishment or airport acceptable to the Board be constructed or under firm
contract within the time limits of the bond, such bond shall be forfeited. The
time limits of the bond shall be based on regular review and consideration by
the Board. Towns that receive highway maintenance payments under &#xA7; 33.2-319
shall be considered separately from the counties in which they are located when
receiving allocations of funds for access roads.

B. The Board, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation and the
Secretary of Commerce and Trade, shall develop guidelines for the use of funds
for access roads to an economic development site pursuant to this section. Such
guidelines shall require consideration of the number of jobs that will be
created by the economic development project, the proposed capital investment by
the private sector at the economic development site, and any other relevant
criteria related to the economic development project.

C. In deciding whether or not to construct or improve any such access road, and
in determining the nature of the road to be constructed, the Board shall base
its considerations on the guidelines developed pursuant to subsection B and on
the cost thereof in relation to the volume and nature of the traffic to be
generated as a result of developing the airport or the economic development
site. Within any economic development site or airport, the total volume of
traffic to be generated shall be taken into consideration in regard to the
overall cost thereof. No such access road shall be constructed or improved on a
privately owned economic development site.

D. Any access road constructed or improved under this section shall constitute a
part of the secondary state highway system or the road system of the locality in
which it is located and shall thereafter be constructed, reconstructed,
maintained, and improved as other roads or highways in such system.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 33-136.1; 1956, c. 161; 1962, c. 550; 1964, c. 254; 1970,
c. 322, § 33.1-221; 1978, c. 299; 1980, c. 38; 1989, c. 336; 1996, cc. 85, 128;
1997, c. 89; 2006, cc. 147, 473; 2013, c. 482; 2014, c. 805; 2015, c. 256; 2021,
Sp. Sess. I, c. 378.