                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ESTABLISHMENT OF CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS (§ 53.1-19)

The Director shall determine the necessity for and select the site of any new
state correctional facility and any land to be taken or purchased by the
Commonwealth for the purposes of any new or existing state correctional
facility. The Director shall have charge of the construction of any new building
at any state correctional facility, shall determine the design thereof, and for
this purpose may employ architects and other experts or hold competitions for
plans and designs. On or after January 1, 1996, at least ninety days in advance
of the issuance of requests for proposals for construction, notice shall be
given by the Director to the chairman of the board of supervisors or mayor of a
county, city or town in which the facility is to be established or expanded for
the purpose of the confinement of inmates. In addition, if the local governing
body in the jurisdiction where the facility is to be located so requests, upon
receipt of such request, the Department shall hold a public hearing in that
jurisdiction. The Director may, if he finds it practical and economical, use
persons sentenced to the Department as laborers in the construction of such
structures.
		If land or property is taken or purchased by the Department, title shall be
taken in the name of the Commonwealth. The original names of all state
correctional facilities shall be designated by the Department and approved by
the Governor.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 53-76.1; 1970, c. 648; 1974, cc. 44, 45; 1976, c. 393;
1982, c. 636; 1995, c. 846; 1996, c. 234; 2020, c. 759.