                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PUBLIC HEARING TO CREATE REGIONAL AUTHORITY OR CHANGE ITS AREA OF OPERATION, AND
FINDINGS (§ 36-44)

The board of supervisors of a county shall not adopt any resolution authorized
by §§ 36-40, 36-41 or 36-42 unless a public hearing has first been held. The
clerk of such county shall give notice of the time, place, and purpose of the
public hearing at least seven days prior to the day on which the hearing is to
be held, in a newspaper published in such county, or if there is no newspaper
published in such county, then in a newspaper published in the Commonwealth and
having a general circulation in such county. Upon the date fixed for such public
hearing an opportunity to be heard shall be granted to all residents of such
county and to all other interested persons.
		In determining whether dwelling accommodations are unsafe or insanitary the
board of supervisors of a county shall take into consideration the safety and
sanitation of dwellings, the light and air space available to the inhabitants of
such dwellings, the degree of overcrowding, the size and arrangement of the
rooms and the extent to which conditions exist in such dwellings which endanger
life or property by fire or other causes.
		In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of other
obligations, a regional housing authority may covenant as to limitations on its
right to adopt resolutions relating to the increase or decrease of its area of
operation.

HISTORY: 1942, p. 320; Michie Code 1942, § 3145(4e); 2023, cc. 506, 507.