                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LIABILITIES OF COMMONWEALTH, COUNTIES, AND CITIES (§ 33.2-1927)

A. Except for claims cognizable under the Virginia Tort Claims Act, Article 18.1
(&#xA7; 8.01-195.1 et seq.) of Chapter 3 of Title 8.01, no pecuniary liability
of any kind shall be imposed on the Commonwealth or upon any county or city
constituting any part of any transportation district because of any act,
agreement, contract, tort, malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance by or on the
part of the commission of such transportation district, or any commission
member, or its agents, servants, and employees, except as otherwise provided in
this chapter with reference to contracts and agreements between the commission
or interstate agency and any county or city.

B. Except for claims cognizable under the Virginia Tort Claims Act, Article 18.1
(&#xA7; 8.01-195.1 et seq.) of Chapter 3 of Title 8.01, the obligations and any
indebtedness of a commission shall not be in any way a debt or liability of the
Commonwealth, or of any county or city in whole or in part embraced by the
transportation district, and shall not create or constitute any indebtedness,
liability, or obligation of the Commonwealth or of any such county or city,
legal, moral, or otherwise, and nothing in this chapter contained shall be
construed to authorize a commission or district to incur any indebtedness on
behalf of or in any way to obligate the Commonwealth or any county or city in
whole or in part embraced by the transportation district; however, any contracts
or agreements between the commission and any county or city provided for in
subdivisions A 4 and B 4 of &#xA7; 33.2-1915 shall inure to the benefit of any
creditor of the transportation district or, when applicable, to an agency as
therein provided.

C. For purposes of this section, &#8220;liability policy,&#8221; as it is used
in the Virginia Tort Claims Act, specifically includes any program of
self-insurance maintained by a district and administered by the Department of
the Treasury&#8217;s Division of Risk Management.

HISTORY: 1964, c. 631, § 15.1-1364; 1986, c. 584; 1987, c. 383; 1997, c. 587,
§ 15.1-4526; 2014, c. 805.