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2015 SESSION
15101718DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 33.2-2604 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 33.2-2604. Decisions of Commission.
A majority of the Commission, which majority shall include at
least a majority of the chief elected officers of the counties and cities
embraced by the Commission, shall constitute a quorum. Decisions of the
Commission shall require a quorum and shall be in accordance with voting
procedures established by the Commission. In all cases, decisions of the
Commission shall require the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members of
the Commission present and voting, and two-thirds of the chief elected officers
of the counties and cities embraced by Planning District 23 who are present and
voting and whose counties and cities include at least two-thirds of the
population embraced by the Commission; however, no motion to fund a specific
facility or service shall fail because of this population criterion if such
facility or service is not located or to be located or provided or to be
provided within the county or city whose chief elected officer's sole negative
vote caused the facility or service to fail to meet the population criterion.
The population of counties and cities embraced by the Commission shall be the
population as determined by [ the most recently preceding decennial
census, except that on July 1 of the fifth year following such census, the
population of each county and city shall be adjusted, based on ] population [ projections
estimates ] made by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service of the
University of Virginia.