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2002 SESSION
023602620Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 58.1-3712 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 58.1-3712. Counties and cities authorized to levy severance tax on coal, gases, sand, marl, and gravel.
A. The governing body of any county or city may levy a license tax on every
person engaging in the business of severing coal, or gases, sand, marl, or
gravel from the earth. Such tax shall be at a rate not to exceed one percent of
the gross receipts from the sale of coal, or gases, sand, marl, or gravel
severed within such county. Such gross receipts shall be the fair market value measured at the time such coal or
gases are utilized or sold for utilization in such county or city or at the
time they are placed in transit for shipment therefrom, provided that if the
tax provided herein is levied, such county or city cannot enact the provisions
of § 58.1-3286 relating to a tax on gross receipts.
B. The authority to levy the license tax on sand, marl, or gravel as provided in subsection A may be exercised by any county or city governing body only if approved in a referendum within the county or city. The referendum shall be held in accordance with § 24.2-684.
C. Any county or city enacting a license tax under this section may require
producers of coal, or gas, sand, marl, or gravel and common carriers to
maintain records and file reports showing the quantities of and receipts from
coal, or gases, sand, marl, or gravel which that they have produced or
transported.