A. Any locality establishing a tourism improvement district may enact ordinances on any of the following subjects that provide for:
1. Activities and other additional services required for tourism promotion or events or for enhancement of the tourism improvement district;
2. Activities in the tourism improvement district that will fund the promotion of tourism activities in the tourism improvement district, including acquiring, constructing, installing, or maintaining capital improvements;
3. Operating and maintaining any tourism improvement district activity;
4. The charging of fees on all benefited businesses within a tourism improvement district, which shall be charged on the basis of the estimated benefit to such businesses within the tourism improvement district;
5. The classifying of businesses for purposes of determining the benefit to the businesses of the activities provided pursuant to this article;
6. A process for the collection of revenues from fees from benefited businesses; and
7. Forming a tourism improvement district in cooperation with, and that includes, other localities.
B. After establishing a tourism improvement district, a locality shall not decrease the level of publicly funded tourism promotion services in a tourism improvement district existing prior to the creation of such tourism improvement district.
2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 500.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns
Chapter 24 - Service Districts; Taxes and Assessments for Local Improvements
§ 15.2-2400. Creation of service districts
§ 15.2-2401. Creation of service districts by court order in consolidated cities
§ 15.2-2402. Description of proposed service district
§ 15.2-2402.1. Change to service district boundaries
§ 15.2-2403. Powers of service districts
§ 15.2-2403.1. Creation of urban transportation service districts
§ 15.2-2403.2. Virginia Wallops Research Park Leadership Council established
§ 15.2-2403.4. Community improvement districts
§ 15.2-2404. Authority to impose taxes or assessments for local improvements; purposes
§ 15.2-2406. How cost assessed or apportioned
§ 15.2-2408. Notice to landowner of amount of assessment
§ 15.2-2409. How notice given; objections
§ 15.2-2410. Appeal to court; duty of clerk of governing body, etc.
§ 15.2-2411. How such appeal tried; lien of judgment; when to take effect; how enforced
§ 15.2-2412. Docketing of abstracts of resolutions or ordinances
§ 15.2-2413. Installment payment of assessments
§ 15.2-2413.2. Filing of tourism improvement district plan
§ 15.2-2413.3. Petition for a proposed tourism improvement district
§ 15.2-2413.4. Hearing on a proposed tourism improvement district
§ 15.2-2413.5. Establishment or extension of the tourism improvement district
§ 15.2-2413.6. Local ordinances related to tourism improvement districts
§ 15.2-2413.7. Amendment to the tourism improvement district plan
§ 15.2-2413.9. Expenses of the tourism improvement district