TITLE 15.2. MISCELLANEOUS - COUNTIES, CITIES AND TOWNS.

Alexandria Port Commission. Repeals the Act of Assembly (as amended) that created the Alexandria Port Commission. The Commission does not exist and this Act of Assembly is obsolete. This legislation is a recommendation of the Virginia Code Commission. HB 1471; CH. 392.

Biennial election of county supervisors in Gloucester County; initial terms. Allows Gloucester County to stagger the terms of its at-large members of the board of supervisors. This bill contains an emergency clause. HB 2834; CH. 530 (effective 3/16/03).

Community centers in certain towns. Allows any town in which a private movie theater has not been in operation for three years to operate a community center that includes a movie theater for the exhibition of motion pictures produced expressly for commercial exhibition. HB 2707; CH. 524.

Lighting level regulation; Augusta County. Allows Augusta County to regulate the maximum upward exterior illumination levels of buildings and property zoned or used for commercial or business purposes. Such ordinance shall only apply to lighting installed after the effective date of the ordinance and shall not affect or be applied to agricultural or silvicultural operations, utility companies, facilities owned by the Department of Corrections, to lighting regulated by the Uniform Statewide Building Code or to premise security lighting for certain multi-family residential or commercial office buildings. HB 2647; CH. 213.

Richmond-Henrico Metropolitan Area Commission. Repeals the Act of Assembly that established this Commission. The Commission was to have studied the feasibility of annexation of all or a part of the County of Henrico by the City of Richmond and also study the advantages and disadvantages of merging the County and the City. The Act of Assembly required that the Commission be appointed and meet no later than October 1, 1960. Since neither of these events has occurred, the Act of Assembly is obsolete. This legislation is a recommendation of the Virginia Code Commission. HB 1475; CH. 396.

Transferring the property, duties, rights, and contractual obligations of the trustees of any unincorporated area commonly referred to as a town to the board of supervisors of the county in which the area is located. Transfers the property, duties, rights, and contractual obligations of trustees to the board of supervisors of the county where the area is located, confirms that any such unincorporated area is part of the county in which it is located, and provides that the trustees shall be deemed to have completed their terms of service and be dissolved. HB 2807; CH. 747.

Treasurer; City of Galax. Abolishes the elected office of the treasurer at the conclusion of the current term, January 1, 2006. All duties of the office shall be assumed by the City's Director of Finance. City voters, in a May 2002 referendum, voted to abolish the office. HB 1808; CH. 188.

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