                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PORT MANAGEMENT (§ 62.1-163)

The governing body of any county, city or town having a port may, at its
pleasure, create such agencies, appoint such agents and employ such persons as
may be required for the orderly and effective management of such port and its
harbor; but nothing herein shall be construed to repeal or amend any prior act
of the General Assembly creating or authorizing the creation of any port
authority, port and industrial authority, port commission or port and industrial
commission or the provisions of any municipal charter. The Circuit Court of the
County of Northumberland shall appoint such an agent for the Port of Reedville.
The appointing authority may prescribe for such agents and agencies such terms
of office, titles, authority, duties, fees and compensation not inconsistent
with law as it may deem appropriate, and may require from each person so
appointed a fidelity bond in favor of the Commonwealth. All controversies
arising between or among agents, agencies, authorities or commissions of two or
more ports shall be referred to the Virginia Port Authority, which authority
shall, under such rules and regulations not inconsistent with law as it shall
promulgate, resolve every such controversy in the best interests of the
Commonwealth as a whole; but any party thereto shall have a right of appeal to
the Supreme Court in the same manner and under the same rules as appeals are
taken from orders of the State Corporation Commission.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 62-124; 1968, c. 659; 1990, c. 204.