SENATE BILL NO. 727 Offered January 18, 2008 A BILL to amend and reenact § 1 of Chapter 654 of the Acts of Assembly of 1990, which provided a charter for the City of Fredericksburg, relating to leasing as lessee certain property. ---------- Patron-- Houck ---------- Unanimous consent to introduce ---------- Referred to Committee on Local Government ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 1 of Chapter 654 of the Acts of Assembly of 1990 is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 1.  Body politic and corporate; name, etc.; general powers.--The inhabitants of the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia, within the boundaries as now established or hereafter established in the manner provided by law, shall continue to be a body corporate and politic by name, the City of Fredericksburg, and under that name shall have perpetual succession; may use a corporate seal; contract and be contracted with; may sue and be sued; may acquire from any source real and personal property within or without its boundaries for any municipal purpose set forth in this charter, and if not set forth in this charter for any purpose permitted by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in fee simple or lesser interest or estate, by purchase, grant, gift, donation, devise, bequest, lease, or condemnation, and may sell, lease, mortgage, pledge, hold, manage, regulate the use and management of, control, and dispose of such property as its interests may require and, except as prohibited by the Constitution of Virginia or restricted by this charter, the City of Fredericksburg shall have all municipal powers, functions, rights, privileges, and immunities of every name and nature whatsoever. 

The City of Fredericksburg may lease as lessee all or a portion of the lands, buildings, and improvements utilized for courthouses, including suitable space and facilities to accommodate the various courts and officials thereof, clerk’s office and record room, and appurtenant facilities such as parking facilities.