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2006 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 15.2-917 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 15.2-917. Applicability of local noise ordinances to certain sport shooting ranges.
A. No local ordinance regulating any noise shall
subject a sport shooting range to noise control standards more stringent than
those in effect at the time the construction or operation of the range
initially was approved, or at the time any application was submitted for the
construction or operation of the range its effective date. The
operation or use of a sport shooting range shall not be enjoined on the basis
of noise, nor shall any person be subject to action for nuisance or criminal
prosecution in any matter relating to noise resulting from the operation of the
range, if the range is in compliance with all ordinances relating to noise in
effect at the time construction or operation of the range was approved, or at
the time any application was submitted for the construction or operation of the
range.
B. Any sport shooting range operating or approved for construction within the Commonwealth, which has been condemned through an eminent domain proceeding by any condemning entity, and which relocates to another site within the same locality within two years of the final condemnation order, shall not be subjected to any noise control standard more stringent than those in effect at the effective date of such sport shooting range.
C. For purposes of this section, "sport shooting range" means an area or structure designed for the use of rifles, shotguns, pistols, silhouettes, skeet, trap, black powder, or any other similar sport shooting.
For purposes of this section, "effective date" means the time the construction or operation of the sports shooting range initially was approved, or at the time any application was submitted for the construction or operation of the sports shooting range, whichever is earliest.