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2011 SESSION
11101898DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 53.1-128 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 53.1-128. Workforces and authorized work places.
The local governing body of any county, city or town may
establish workforces in the county, city or town under such conditions as it
may prescribe. Such workforces are authorized to work on (i) public
property or works owned, leased or operated by the Commonwealth or the county,
city or town; on (ii) a privately operated national park on
federal land; on (iii) any property owned by a nonprofit
organization that is exempt from taxation under 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3) or (c)(4)
and that is organized and operated exclusively for charitable or social welfare
purposes whether the same is located within such county, city or town, or
elsewhere; or on (iv) private property (a) owned or
occupied by an elderly or indigent person or persons where such property has
been identified by a citizens housing advisory committee as needing
rehabilitation or repair and the property owner has consented to such work
or (b) classified as or used as a cemetery where [ such property has
been abandoned and where ] on such property exist nuisances that have
been identified by a municipal corporation for removal pursuant to § 15.2-1115
or a similar local ordinance. Every person 18 years of age or older who is
convicted and confined for any violation of a local ordinance and who is
confined as a punishment or for failure to pay a required fine, shall be liable
to work in such workforce. Every person 18 years of age or older who is
confined pending disposition of a nonviolent criminal offense or an offense
under Chapter 5 (§ 20-61 et seq.) of Title 20 may work in such workforce on a
voluntary basis with the approval of and under the supervision of the sheriff.