                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD (§ 5.1-2.2)

The Board shall exercise the following powers and duties:

1. Provide a means of citizen access to the Department;

2. Provide a means of publicizing the policies and programs of the Department in
order to educate the public and elicit public support for Department activities;

3. Monitor the policies and activities of the Department and have the right of
access to departmental information;

4. Advise the Governor and the Director on matters relating to the
Commonwealth&#8217;s aviation policies and programs;

5. Promulgate such rules and regulations relating to airports, landing fields
and other aviation facilities, aircraft, and such other kindred matters and
things as may be proper and necessary to promote and develop safe aviation
practices and operations; and

6. Develop on behalf of the Department recommendations for distribution of funds
to localities by the State Corporation Commission for aviation development
through the end of the 1978-80 biennium, after which time the Board shall be
responsible for the allocation on behalf of the Department of all such funds as
provided in this act, which funds shall be distributed by the Department in
accordance with such allocation.

HISTORY: 1979, c. 272; 1980, c. 306; 1984, c. 720; 2017, c. 793.