                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

POWERS AND DUTIES OF COMMISSION (§ 33.2-2103)

The commission may:

1. Expend district revenues to construct, reconstruct, alter, improve, or expand
transportation improvements and make loans or otherwise provide for the cost of
transportation improvements and for financial assistance to operate
transportation improvements in the district for the use and benefit of the
public.

2. Acquire by gift, purchase, lease, in-kind contribution to construction costs,
or otherwise any transportation improvements in the district and sell, lease as
lessor, transfer, or dispose of any part of any transportation improvements in
such manner and upon such terms as the commission may determine to be in the
best interests of the district. However, prior to disposing of any such property
or interest therein, the commission shall conduct a public hearing with respect
to such disposition. At the hearing, the residents and owners of property within
the district shall have an opportunity to be heard. At least seven days&#8217;
notice of the time and place of such hearing shall be published in a newspaper
of general circulation in the district, as prescribed by the commission. Such
public hearing may be adjourned from time to time.

3. Negotiate and contract with any person with regard to any matter necessary
and proper to provide any transportation improvements, including the financing,
acquisition, construction, reconstruction, alteration, improvement, expansion,
operation, or maintenance of any transportation improvements in the district.
For the purposes of this chapter, transportation improvements are within the
district if they are located within the boundaries of the transportation
improvement district or are reasonably deemed necessary for the construction or
operation of transportation improvements within the boundaries of the
transportation improvement district.

4. Enter into a continuing service contract for a purpose authorized by this
chapter and make payments of the proceeds received from the special taxes levied
pursuant to this chapter, together with any other revenues, for installments due
under that service contract. The district may apply such payments annually
during the term of that service contract in an amount sufficient to make the
installment payments due under that contract, subject to the limitation imposed
by this chapter. However, payments for any such service contract shall be
conditioned upon the receipt of services pursuant to the contract. Such a
contract shall not obligate a county or participating town to make payments for
services of the district.

5. Accept the allocations, contributions, or funds of any available source or
reimburse from any available source, including any person, for the whole or any
part of the costs, expenses, and charges incident to the acquisition,
construction, reconstruction, maintenance, alteration, improvement, and
expansion or the operation of any transportation improvements in the district.

6. Contract for the extension and use of any public mass transit system or
highway into territory outside the district on such terms and conditions as the
commission determines.

7. Employ and fix the compensation of personnel who may be deemed necessary for
the construction, operation, or maintenance of any transportation improvements
in the district.

8. Have prepared an annual audit of the district&#8217;s financial obligations
and revenues, and upon review of such audit, request a tax rate adequate to
provide tax revenues that, together with all other revenues, are required by the
district to fulfill its annual obligations.

HISTORY: 2001, c. 611, § 33.1-433; 2004, c. 792; 2014, c. 805; 2015, c. 256;
2023, cc. 506, 507.