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2019 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 33.2-213 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 33.2-213. Naming highways, bridges, interchanges, and other transportation facilities.
The Board shall have the power and duty to give suitable names
to state highways, bridges, interchanges, and other transportation facilities
and change the names of any highways, bridges, interchanges, or other
transportation facilities forming a part of the systems of state highways. The names
of private entities, as defined in § 33.2-1800, located within the Commonwealth
shall not be used for such purposes unless such private entity pays the
Department an annual naming rights fee as determined by the Board. The
Department shall place and maintain appropriate signs indicating the names of
highways, bridges, interchanges, and other transportation facilities named by
the Board or by the General Assembly. The costs of producing, placing, and
maintaining these signs shall be paid by the localities in which they are
located or by the private entity whose name is attached to the highway, bridge,
interchange, or other transportation facility. However, for a highway,
bridge, interchange, or other transportation facility named after a state
official killed during the performance of his official duties, the costs of
producing, placing, and maintaining these signs shall be paid from Commonwealth
Transportation Funds. For purposes of this section, "state
official" includes law-enforcement officers employed by the Department of
State Police and state highway transportation workers. No name shall be
given to any state highway, bridge, interchange, or other transportation
facility by the Board unless and until the Board receives (i) for a naming
after a state official, a letter or resolution from the head of the state
agency by which the state official was employed requesting such naming or (ii)
for a naming other than after a state official, a resolution from the
governing body of the locality within which a portion of the facility to be
named is located a resolution of that governing body requesting such
naming, except in such cases where a private entity has requested the naming.
No highway, bridge, interchange, or other transportation facility previously
named by the Board or the General Assembly shall be eligible for renaming by a
private entity, unless such naming incorporates the previous name. The Board
shall develop and approve guidelines governing the naming of highways, bridges,
interchanges, and other transportation facilities by private entities and the
applicable fees for such naming rights. Such fees shall be deposited in the
Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund established pursuant to § 33.2-1530.
No name shall be eligible for the naming rights under this section if it in any way reasonably connotes anything that (i) is profane, obscene, or vulgar; (ii) is sexually explicit or graphic; (iii) is excretory related; (iv) is descriptive of intimate body parts or genitals; (v) is descriptive of illegal activities or substances; (vi) condones or encourages violence; or (vii) is socially, racially, or ethnically offensive or disparaging.