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HOUSE BILL NO. 2085 Offered January 23, 1995 A BILL to amend and reenact § 58.1-3660 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certified pollution control equipment and facilities. ---------- Patron--DeBoer ---------- Referred to Committee on Finance ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 58.1-3660 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 58.1-3660. Certified pollution control equipment and facilities.

A. Certified pollution control equipment and facilities, as defined herein, are hereby declared to be a separate class of property and shall constitute a classification for local taxation separate from other such classification of real or personal property and such property. The governing body of any county, city or town may, by ordinance, exempt or partially exempt such property from local taxation.

B. As used in this section:

"Certified pollution control equipment and facilities" shall mean any property, including real or personal property, equipment, facilities, or devices, used primarily for the purpose of abating or preventing pollution of the atmosphere or waters of the Commonwealth and which the state certifying authority having jurisdiction with respect to such property has certified to the Department of Taxation as having been constructed, reconstructed, erected, or acquired in conformity with the state program or requirements for abatement or control of water or atmospheric pollution or contamination.

"State certifying authority" shall mean the State Water Control Board, for water pollution, and; the State Air Pollution Control Board, for air pollution,; and the Virginia Waste Management Board, for waste disposal facilities, and shall include any interstate agency authorized to act in place of a certifying authority of the Commonwealth.