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2023 SESSION

23101116D
SENATE BILL NO. 822
Offered January 11, 2023
Prefiled December 20, 2022
A BILL to amend and reenact § 17.05 of Chapter 576 of the Acts of Assembly of 1978, which provided a charter for the City of Newport News, relating to certain advertising requirements; city waterworks.
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Patron-- Locke
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Referred to Committee on Local Government
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 17.05 of Chapter 576 of the Acts of Assembly of 1978 is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 17.05. Continuance of Acts 1926, Chapter 530.

All of the provisions, obligations, and directions of Chapter 530, Acts of Assembly, 1926, and all amendments thereto, except as otherwise changed by this chapter, concerning the waterworks system shall continue in full force and effect as though the consolidated city was in the original act the city set forth in such act. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Chapter 530, Acts of Assembly, 1926, or any other provision of law, the city may sell, convey, lease, or otherwise dispose of any real property belonging or appertaining to the waterworks system after a descriptive notice of the ordinance proposing to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of said real property is advertised once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper having general circulation in the city.