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2004 SESSION
Chairman: Frederick M. Quayle
Date of Meeting: January 20, 2004
Time and Place: 2:00 pm, Senate Room B, GAB
Patron: Martin
State and local health departments; reimbursement. Adds Chesterfield County to those localities that may supplement salaries and reimburse travel expenses of employees of state and local health departments.
Patron: Puckett
Buchanan County Tourist Train Development Authority. Increases the membership of the authority's board from eight to 22 members and permits the authority to borrow money and to accept contributions, grants, and other financial assistance from any private person, foundation or financial institution.
Patron: Potts
Regulations on political campaign signs. Supercedes local ordinances and regulations that would prohibit the display of political campaign signs on private or public property, with the permission of the owner of the property and subject to right-of-way restrictions, during the 30 days before an election.
Patron: Miller
Industrial development authorities. Allows the Chesapeake Industrial Development Authority to call itself an economic development authority.
Patron: Obenshain
Charter; City of Harrisonburg. Provides that the mayor may resign the office of mayor without giving up his or her membership on council. Also, the council may, by unanimous vote of the council members other than the mayor, remove the mayor from the office of mayor.
Patron: Marsh
Criminal background checks. Allows localities to decide whether the locality or the individual pays the cost of fingerprinting for criminal record checks.
Patron: Devolites
Charter; City of Fairfax. Provides that the Mayor and council members may be compensated in accordance with general law.
Patron: Williams
Automobile graveyards and junkyards. Adds any county with a population of at least 56,000 but less than 57,000 according to the 2000 U.S. Census to the current list of counties that may adopt an ordinance requiring the screening of automobile graveyards and junkyards.
Patron: Edwards
Charter; City of Roanoke. Amends the city's charter to allow for both city council and voter petition-initiated advisory referenda. Such referenda may be held on any question relating to the affairs of the city. If a petition-initiated referendum pertaining to a charter amendment passes by a majority vote, then the clerk of the circuit court shall communicate the result to the General Assembly with the same effect as if the council had adopted a resolution requesting the General Assembly to adopt the amendment.
Patron: Lambert
Sheriffs' vehicles. Clarifies that sheriffs' offices may use unmarked vehicles.
Patron: Deeds
Industrial development authorities. Allows Nelson County to call its industrial development authority an economic development authority.
Patron: Stolle
Jail deputies. Codifies budget language (Item 64 E) to provide that the Commonwealth will fund one jail deputy for every three beds of operational capacity and in overcrowded jails one jail deputy for every five average annual daily prisoners above operational capacity.
Patron: Blevins
Boards of zoning appeals; appointments. Allows the Chesapeake city council to appoint members of the board of zoning appeals. Appointments are typically made by the circuit court.
Patron: Reynolds
Water and sewage connections. Allows Wythe County, in assuming the obligations of a public service authority, to assume such obligations under the same terms and conditions as applicable to the public service authority.
Patron: Whipple
Charter; City of Falls Church. Makes changes affecting the internal operations and administration of city government in order to give the City greater flexibility to deal with personnel and other matters.
Patron: Quayle
Moratorium on city annexation and county immunity notices and proceedings. Extends the moratorium on annexation proceedings. Under the current law, the moratorium ends following the end of any biennium in which actual appropriations to local governments for law-enforcement expenditures are less than the amount statutorily required.
Patron: Quayle
Boards of zoning appeals; appointments. Allows the Chesapeake city council to appoint members of the board of zoning appeals. Appointments are typically made by the circuit court.
Patron: Quayle
Industrial development authorities. Allows the Chesapeake Industrial Development Authority to call itself an economic development authority.
Patron: Quayle
Charter; City of Franklin. Increases the salaries of school board members from $1,000 to $4,000 and the school board chairman from $1,500 to $5,000.
Patron: Blevins
Community criminal justice boards. Authorizes an officer appointed by a local governing body to serve on a community criminal justice board to designate a member of his staff to represent him at meetings of the board.