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1998 SESSION
(HB1019)JOINT CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT
We, the conferees, appointed by the respective bodies to consider and report upon the disagreeing vote on House Bill No. 1019, report as follows:
A. We recommend that the Senate Amendments be rejected.
B. We recommend that the engrossed bill be amended as follows to resolve the matters under disagreement.
1. Page 1, engrossed, line 24, after devices;
strike
for the underground relocation of distribution lines for electricity, telephone, cable television and similar utilities;
2. Page 1, engrossed, after line 42
insert
In any city with a population between 11,200 and 12,000, the governing body may impose taxes or assessments upon the owners of abutting property for the underground relocation of distribution lines for electricity, telephone, cable television and similar utilities. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 15.2-2405, such underground relocation of distribution lines may only be ordered by the governing body and the cost thereof apportioned in pursuance of an agreement between the governing body and the abutting landowners, and, in the absence of such an agreement, the cost of improvements which is to be defrayed in whole or in part by such local tax or assessment, may in such cities be ordered on a petition from not less than three-fourths of the landowners to be affected thereby. Notice shall be given to the abutting landowners, notifying them when and where they may appear before the governing body, or some committee thereof, or the administrative board or other similar board of the locality to whom the matter may be referred, to be heard in favor of or against such improvements.
Respectfully submitted,
George W. Grayson
L. Preston Bryant, Jr.
Michele B. MCQuigg
Conferees on the part of the House
Thomas K. Norment, Jr.
Martin E. Williams
Stephen H. Martin
Conferees on the part of the Senate