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§ 15.2-2100. Restrictions on selling certain municipal public property and granting franchises - A. No rights of a city or town in and...
§ 15.2-2101. Ordinance proposing grant of franchise, etc., to be advertised - A. Before granting any franchise, privilege, lease or right of...
§ 15.2-2102. How bids received and to whom franchise awarded - The presiding officer shall read aloud, or cause to be...
§ 15.2-2103. Award when no satisfactory bid received - If, after such advertisements, no bid, or no satisfactory bid,...
§ 15.2-2103.1. Solar services agreements; nondisclosure of proprietary information - A. A solar services agreement may be structured as a...
§ 15.2-2104. Bond of person awarded franchise, etc. - The person to whom a franchise, right, lease or privilege...
§ 15.2-2105. How amendments made to franchise, etc.; notice required - No amendment or extension of any franchise, right, lease or...
§ 15.2-2105.1. Granting franchises for operation of a vehicular ferry transportation system - The authority granted by this article for the granting of...
§ 15.2-2106. Powers of court to enforce obedience by mandamus, etc. - The circuit courts for the cities and for the counties...
§ 15.2-2107. Persons occupying or using streets, etc., contrary to law - Any person occupying or using any of the streets, avenues,...
§ 15.2-2108. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2006, cc. 73 and 76, cl. 2,...
§ 15.2-2108.1. Regulation of open video systems - A locality may regulate any open video system authorized pursuant...
§ 15.2-2108.1:1. Franchise fees and public rights-of-way fees on cable operators - A. As used in this section: "Cable operator" means any...
§ 15.2-2108.2. Definitions - As used in this article: "Advanced service" means high-speed Internet...
§ 15.2-2108.3. Scope of article - A. Nothing in this article shall authorize any county or...
§ 15.2-2108.4. Limitations on providing cable television services - A. Except as provided in this article, a municipality shall...
§ 15.2-2108.5. Preliminary public hearing; feasibility consultant - A. Before a municipality may engage or offer to engage...
§ 15.2-2108.6. Feasibility study on providing cable television services - A. Upon the hiring of a feasibility consultant under §...
§ 15.2-2108.7. Public hearings on feasibility study; notice - A. If the results of the feasibility study satisfy the...
§ 15.2-2108.8. Referendum - A. Before a municipality may offer cable television service, the...
§ 15.2-2108.9. Enterprise funds for cable television services - A. A municipality that provides a cable television service under...
§ 15.2-2108.10. Bonding authority - A. The governing body of a municipality may by resolution...
§ 15.2-2108.11. General operating limitations - A. A municipality that provides a cable television service shall...
§ 15.2-2108.12. Eminent domain - A. No municipality shall exercise its power of eminent domain...
§ 15.2-2108.13. Quality of service standards - A municipality that provides a cable television service shall adopt...
§ 15.2-2108.14. Civil action - A private provider may file an action against a municipality...
§ 15.2-2108.15. Consumer complaints - A municipality that provides cable television service shall enact an...
§ 15.2-2108.16. Annual report - A municipality that provides cable television service shall provide to...
§ 15.2-2108.17. Antitrust immunity - A municipality that provides a cable television service is subject...
§ 15.2-2108.18. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2016, cc. 724 and 725, cl. 4,...
§ 15.2-2108.19. Definitions - As used in this article: "Act" means the Communications Act...
§ 15.2-2108.20. Authority to grant negotiated cable franchises and regulate cable systems - A. A locality may grant a negotiated cable franchise in...
§ 15.2-2108.21. Ordinance cable franchises - A. This section shall govern the procedures by which a...
§ 15.2-2108.22. Regulation of fees, rates and services; penalties - Upon receiving a notice requesting an ordinance cable franchise pursuant...
§ 15.2-2108.23. Regulation of rights-of-way; fees - A. To the extent that a franchised cable operator has...
§ 15.2-2108.24. Regulation of facility construction or rights-of-way management requirements for certain cable operators - A locality shall not impose through a franchise to provide...
§ 15.2-2108.25. Itemization - A cable operator providing cable service may identify as a...
§ 15.2-2108.26. Reciprocity - Upon the request by an existing cable operator in the...
§ 15.2-2108.27. Modification - No locality, without the consent of the franchisee, shall accelerate...
§ 15.2-2108.28. Transfer - No transfer of any franchise granted under this article shall...
§ 15.2-2108.29. Surrender - Notwithstanding the provisions of this article, a new cable franchisee...
§ 15.2-2108.30. Renewal - A cable operator electing to renew its cable franchise shall...
§ 15.2-2108.31. Article construed - The fact that any person obtains a negotiated franchise or...
§ 15.2-2108.32. Application of article to certain localities - In any locality in which the governing body of the...
§ 15.2-2109. Powers of localities as to public utilities and computer services; prevention of pollution of certain water - A. Any locality may (i) acquire or otherwise obtain control...
§ 15.2-2109.1. Prescriptive easements for provision of water and sewer services - In an action to establish a prescriptive easement involving the...
§ 15.2-2109.2. Mutual aid agreements for power and natural gas - Localities may enter into mutual aid agreements with investor-owned public...
§ 15.2-2109.3. Provision of natural gas distribution service within counties - Any municipal corporation or public service authority created under the...
§ 15.2-2110. Mandatory connection to water and sewage systems in certain counties - A. Amelia, Botetourt, Campbell, Cumberland, Franklin, Halifax, and Nelson Counties...
§ 15.2-2111. Regulation of sewage disposal or water service - Any locality may exercise its powers to regulate sewage collection,...
§ 15.2-2112. Agreements by political subdivisions for sewage or water service - Any two or more localities, authorities, sanitary districts or other...
§ 15.2-2113. Connections of fire suppression systems - Any locality, by ordinance, may require local water utilities to...
§ 15.2-2114. Regulation of stormwater - A. Any locality, by ordinance, may establish a utility or...
§ 15.2-2114.01. Local Stormwater Management Fund; grant moneys - Any locality may by ordinance create a local Stormwater Management...
§ 15.2-2114.1. Car-washing fundraiser - No locality shall prohibit car washing as a noncommercial fundraising...
§ 15.2-2115. Purchase of gas, electric and water plants operating in contiguous territory - Whenever a locality leases or purchases any gas, electric or...
§ 15.2-2116. Acquisition by county or city of water supply system or sewage system from sanitary district - Any county or city may acquire any water supply or...
§ 15.2-2117. Contracts with sewerage or water purification company, etc. - Any locality may contract with any sewerage or water purification...
§ 15.2-2118. Lien for water and sewer charges and taxes imposed by localities - The governing body of any county adjoining a city lying...
§ 15.2-2118.1. Lien for gas utilities charges and taxes imposed by localities - The governing body of any locality with a municipally-owned gas...
§ 15.2-2119. Fees and charges for water and sewer services provided to a property owner - A. For water and sewer services provided by localities, fees...
§ 15.2-2119.1. Credit for excessive water and sewer charges - A locality or authority, as such term is defined in...
§ 15.2-2119.2. Discounted fees and charges for certain low-income, elderly, or disabled customers - The City of Richmond or any locality that is the...
§ 15.2-2119.3. Sustainable infrastructure financial assistance - The City of Richmond may by ordinance develop criteria for...
§ 15.2-2119.4. Fees and charges for water and sewer services provided to a tenant or lessee of the property owner - A. Notwithstanding any provision of law, general or special, the...
§ 15.2-2120. Enforcement of liens for water or sewer charges - A. Any lien for water and sewer charges when properly...
§ 15.2-2121. Regulations as to water, sewer and other facilities in subdivisions and development plans - Any locality which has adopted regulations under Chapter 22 (§...
§ 15.2-2122. Localities authorized to establish, etc., sewage disposal system; incidental powers - For the purpose of providing relief from pollution, and for...
§ 15.2-2123. Sewage treatment plants to include certain capability - Whenever the governing body of a locality or a combination...
§ 15.2-2124. Contracts between localities as to sewers, pumping stations, etc., to prevent pollution - Any two or more localities may enter into contracts for...
§ 15.2-2125. Board, etc., for supervision of such works - Localities contracting with each other pursuant to § 15.2-2124 may...
§ 15.2-2126. Notice to governing body required prior to construction - Any person, including municipal corporations, that proposes to establish a...
§ 15.2-2127. Disapproval of system by governing body; failure to disapprove within seventy days - The governing body of any county notified of the proposed...
§ 15.2-2128. Denial of application for sewage system by governing body of county or town which has adopted master plan for sewerage - Notwithstanding any other provision of general law relating to the...
§ 15.2-2129. Contents of notice to governing body; further information - The applicant shall state in the notice to the governing...
§ 15.2-2130. Extensions to systems - No person, including municipal corporations, which has constructed or installed...
§ 15.2-2131. Article not applicable to hotel corporations - No provision of this article shall apply to a corporation...
§ 15.2-2132. Noncompliance with article; separate offense - Any person who fails or refuses to notify the governing...
§ 15.2-2133. Penalty; enjoining violation - Any person violating any provision of this article shall be...
§ 15.2-2134. Construction of dams, etc., for purpose of providing public water supply; approval by governing body of locality - Every locality is authorized to make expenditures from its general...
§ 15.2-2135. Disputes between jurisdictions involving dams or water impoundment; constitution of special court; vacancies occurring during trial - A. The special court to hear a case between jurisdictions...
§ 15.2-2136. Powers of special court; rules of decision; order controlling subsequent conduct of case - The court, in making its decision, shall balance the equities...
§ 15.2-2137. Special court; hearing and decision - A. The special court shall hear the case upon the...
§ 15.2-2138. Dispute between jurisdictions; additional parties - Any locality whose territory is affected by the proceedings or...
§ 15.2-2139. Special court; costs - The costs in the proceedings before the special court shall...
§ 15.2-2140. Dispute between jurisdictions; appeals - A. An appeal may be filed in the Court of...
§ 15.2-2141. Conflicting petitions for same territory; petition seeking territory in two or more counties - A. When proceedings for the acquisition of land by a...
§ 15.2-2142. Certain localities may construct dams across navigable streams; permission from Chief of Engineers, Secretary of Army and State Attorney General; approval of governing body - Any locality authorized by its charter or by general law...
§ 15.2-2143. Water supplies and facilities - Every locality may provide and operate within or outside its...
§ 15.2-2144. Inspection of water supplies - A. Every locality may regulate and inspect public and private...
§ 15.2-2145. Sale of water and use of streets by one city in another - No city which owns or controls a waterworks system and...
§ 15.2-2146. Powers of localities to acquire certain waterworks system - For the purpose of providing an adequate water supply or...
§ 15.2-2147. City acquiring plant within one mile of another city - If any city acquires by purchase, lease, condemnation or otherwise,...
§ 15.2-2148. Contracts for water supply - Nothing in this article shall be construed to prevent a...
§ 15.2-2149. Notice to county and State Board of Health required prior to construction - Any person, including municipal corporations, that proposes to establish a...
§ 15.2-2150. When approval of State Board of Health not required - The approval of the State Board of Health shall not...
§ 15.2-2151. Disapproval of system by governing body of counties; failure to disapprove within seventy days - The governing body of any county notified of the proposed...
§ 15.2-2152. Contents of notice to governing body; further information - The applicant shall state in the notice to the governing...
§ 15.2-2153. Extensions to systems - No person that has constructed or installed a water system...
§ 15.2-2154. Article not applicable to hotel corporations - No provision of this article shall apply to a corporation...
§ 15.2-2155. Noncompliance with article; separate offenses - Any person that fails or refuses to notify the governing...
§ 15.2-2156. Penalty; enjoining violation - Any person violating any provision of this article shall be...
§ 15.2-2157. Onsite sewage systems when sewers not available; civil penalties - A. Any locality may require the installation, maintenance and operation...
§ 15.2-2157.1. Permit for onsite sewage disposal system installation in certain counties - Augusta County may require any person desiring to install a...
§ 15.2-2158. Fee for street lighting - A. Frederick County, which provides street lighting service to certain...
§ 15.2-2159. Fee for solid waste disposal by counties - A. Accomack, Augusta, Buckingham, Floyd, Highland, Pittsylvania, Russell, and Wise...
§ 15.2-2160. Provision of telecommunications services - A. Any locality that operates an electric distribution system may...