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SENATE BILL NO. 80 Offered January 11, 2012 Prefiled January 9, 2012 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 15.2-1725.1, relating to the grant of concurrent jurisdiction over adjoining waters to the City of Virginia Beach. ---------- Patron-- McWaters ---------- Referred to Committee on Local Government ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 15.2-1725.1 as follows:

§ 15.2-1725.1. Concurrent jurisdiction; limitations.

For the purposes of local public safety regulation authority and enforcement, the territorial limits of the City of Virginia Beach shall extend from its coastal shorelines, the coastal shorelines of Camp Pendleton, the coastal shorelines of First Landing State Park, and the coastal shorelines of False Cape State Park in a perpendicular direction for three miles into the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay waters. This territorial jurisdiction shall be concurrent with the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth. No ordinance enacted under this authority shall conflict with the laws or regulations promulgated by the Commonwealth or any of its agencies.