VIRGINIA LAW PORTAL

• Code of Virginia
• Virginia Administrative Code
• Constitution of Virginia
• Charters
• Authorities
• Compacts
• Uncodified Acts
• RIS Users (account required)

SEARCHABLE DATABASES

• Bills & Resolutions
  session legislation
• Bill Summaries
  session summaries
• Reports to the General Assembly
  House and Senate documents
• Legislative Liaisons
  State agency contacts

ACROSS SESSIONS

• Subject Index: Since 1995
• Bills & Resolutions: Since 1994
• Summaries: Since 1994

Developed and maintained by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.

1996 SESSION

• history | hilite | pdf | print version

960017152
HOUSE BILL NO. 662 Offered January 19, 1996 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 15.1-338.1 and to repeal the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth enactments of Chapter 812 of the Acts of Assembly of 1992, relating to the out-of-basin transfer of water. ----------
Patrons-- Clement, Abbitt, Armstrong, Bennett, Cranwell, Crouch, Dickinson, Dudley, Griffith, Guest, Ingram, Johnson, Kilgore, Murphy, Putney, Reynolds, Ruff, Stump, Tate, Thomas and Woodrum; Senators: Goode, Hanger, Hawkins, Lucas, Miller, K.G., Newman and Trumbo
---------- Referred to Committee on General Laws ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 15.1-338.1 as follows:

§ 15.1-338.1. Cities prohibited from acquiring out-of-basin water supply.

No city having a population greater than 350,000 shall supplement its water supply with water initially withdrawn from a reservoir located in a major river basin other than the basin in which the city is located and subsequently transported to a reservoir serving that city. For purposes of this section the delineation of the major river basins shall be as described in § 62.1-44.38.

2. That the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth enactments of Chapter 812 of the Acts of Assembly of 1992 are repealed.