Virginia Code 15.2-4707: Jurisdiction of localities and officers, etc., not affected
Neither the creation of a district nor any other provision in this chapter shall affect the power, jurisdiction, or duties of the local governing body, sheriff, treasurer, commissioner of the revenue, circuit, district, or other courts, clerks of any court, magistrates, or any other local or state officer in regard to the area embraced in any district or restrict or prevent the locality or town, or the governing body of the locality or town, from imposing and collecting taxes or assessments for public improvements as permitted by law. Notwithstanding any contrary provisions of law, any locality that creates a district pursuant to this section may obligate itself with respect to the zoning ordinances, zoning ordinance text, and regulations relating thereto for all commercial and industrial classifications within the district as provided in subsection C of § 15.2-4702 for a term not to exceed 20 years from the date on which such a district is created.
Terms Used In Virginia Code 15.2-4707
- Governing body: means the board of supervisors of a county, council of a city, or council of a town, as the context may require. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Locality: means a county, city, or town as the context may require. See Virginia Code 1-221
- State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-245
- Town: means any existing town or an incorporated community within one or more counties which became a town before noon, July one, nineteen hundred seventy-one, as provided by law or which has within defined boundaries a population of 1,000 or more and which has become a town as provided by law. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
1997, c. 587.