Sunday, September 7, 2008
The General Assembly is not in session.
Tracking Virginia’s General Assembly
since 2007.
HB380: Vacant buildings; increases annual registration fee.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 15.2-1127 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 15.2-1127. Vacant building registration; penalty.
Any city, by ordinance, may require the owner or owners of
buildings that have been vacant for a continuous period of twelve 12
months or more to register such buildings on an annual basis and may impose an
annual registration fee not to exceed twenty-five dollars $100
to defray the cost of processing such registration. The registration of
buildings shall be on forms designated by the city and filed with the agency
designated by the city. Failure to register shall be a fifty-dollar $50
civil penalty; however, failure to register in conservation and rehabilitation
districts designated by the governing body, or in other areas designated as
blighted pursuant to § 36-49.1:1, shall be punishable by a civil penalty not
exceeding $250. Notice shall be mailed to the owner or owners, at the address
to which property tax notices are sent, at least 30 days prior to the
assessment of the civil penalty.
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