Friday, November 21, 2008
The General Assembly is not in session.
Tracking Virginia’s General Assembly
since 2007.
HB1811: Vacant building registration; increases annual 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.
Additional Data
Explanation
This is the actual text of the bill — the legislation itself. Generally this is amending existing law, proposing the addition or removal of words from laws that are already on the books.
Words that are highlighted in yellow are
proposed additions, and words that are crossed out in
red are proposed removals.
The numbers with the § symbol before them are references to existing laws, and if you click on them they’ll take you to that part of the law on the state's website.