                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

GENERAL POWERS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF RAIL AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION (§ 33.2-284)

The Department of Rail and Public Transportation has the following general
powers:

1. To accept grants from the United States government and agencies and
instrumentalities thereof and any other source. To these ends, the Department of
Rail and Public Transportation has the power to comply with such conditions and
execute such agreements as may be necessary, convenient or desirable;

2. To make and enter into all contracts and agreements necessary or incidental
to the performance of its duties and the execution of its powers under this
chapter, including contracts with the United States government, other states,
agencies and governmental subdivisions of Virginia, and other appropriate public
and private entities;

3. To assist other appropriate entities, public or private, in the
implementation and improvement of passenger and freight rail, transportation
demand management, ridesharing, and public transportation services and the
retention of rail corridors for public purposes;

4. To represent and promote the Commonwealth&#8217;s interests in passenger and
freight rail, transportation demand management, ridesharing, and public
transportation; and

5. To acquire and hold title to the land necessary to construct railway lines in
order to reduce traffic congestion on highways and shift traffic to rail
transportation and acquire by any means whatsoever, lease, improve, and
construct railway lines, passenger and freight rail, transportation demand
management, ridesharing, and public transportation facilities, and passenger and
freight rail, transportation demand management, ridesharing, and public
transportation equipment determined to be for the common good of the
Commonwealth or a region of the Commonwealth and assist other appropriate
entities in the implementation and improvement of passenger and freight rail,
transportation demand management, ridesharing, and public transportation
services and the retention of rail corridors for public purposes.

HISTORY: 1992, c. 167, § 33.1-391.4; 2002, c. 355; 2013, c. 211; 2014, c. 805.