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2016 SESSION
16102446DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 15.2-915.5 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 15.2-915.5. Disposition of firearms acquired by localities.
A. No locality or agent of such locality may participate in any program in which individuals are given a thing of value provided by another individual or other entity in exchange for surrendering a firearm to the locality or agent of such locality unless the governing body of the locality has enacted an ordinance, pursuant to § 15.2-1425, authorizing the participation of the locality or agent of such locality in such program.
B. Any ordinance enacted pursuant to this section shall
require that any firearm received, except a firearm of the type defined in §
18.2-288 or 18.2-299 or, a firearm the transfer for
which is prohibited by federal law, or a firearm accompanied by a
signed request that the firearm be destroyed, shall
be offered for sale by public auction or sealed bids to a person licensed as a
dealer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 921 et seq. Notice of the date, time, and place
of sale shall be given by advertisement in at least two newspapers published
and having general circulation in the Commonwealth, at least one of which shall
have general circulation in the locality in which the property to be sold is
located. At least 30 days shall elapse between publication of the notice and
the auction or the date on which sealed bids will be opened. Any firearm
remaining in possession of the locality or agent of the locality after attempts
to sell at public auction or by sealed bids shall be disposed of in a manner
the locality deems proper, which may include destruction of the firearm or,
subject to any registration requirements of federal law, sale of the firearm to
a licensed dealer.