SB995: Hampton Roads Transportation Authority; abolished, makes several technical changes.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That 33.1-23.03, 58.1-811, 58.1-2403, 58.1-2425, and 58.1-3221.3 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
33.1-23.03. Board to develop and update Statewide Transportation Plan.
The Commonwealth Transportation Board shall conduct a
comprehensive review of statewide transportation needs in a Statewide
Transportation Plan setting forth an inventory of all construction needs for
all systems, and based upon this inventory, establishing goals, objectives, and
priorities covering a twenty-year planning horizon, in accordance with federal
transportation planning requirements. This plan shall embrace all modes of
transportation and include technological initiatives. This Statewide
Transportation Plan shall be updated as needed, but no less than once every
five years. The plan shall promote economic development and all transportation
modes, intermodal connectivity, environmental quality, accessibility for people
and freight, and transportation safety. The plan shall include quantifiable
measures and achievable goals relating to, but not limited to, congestion
reduction and safety, transit and high-occupancy vehicle facility use,
job-to-housing ratios, job and housing access to transit and pedestrian
facilities, air quality, and per capita vehicle miles traveled. The Board shall
consider such goals in evaluating and selecting transportation improvement
projects. The plan shall incorporate the approved long-range plans' measures
and goals developed by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority and
the Hampton Roads Transportation Authority. Each such plan shall
be summarized in a public document and made available to the general public
upon presentation to the Governor and General Assembly.
It is the intent of the General Assembly that this plan assess transportation needs and assign priorities to projects on a statewide basis, avoiding the production of a plan which is an aggregation of local, district, regional, or modal plans.
58.1-811. Exemptions.
A. The taxes imposed by 58.1-801 and 58.1-807 shall not apply to any deed conveying real estate or lease of real estate:
1. To an incorporated college or other incorporated institution of learning not conducted for profit, where such real estate is intended to be used for educational purposes and not as a source of revenue or profit;
2. To an incorporated church or religious body or to the trustee or trustees of any church or religious body, or a corporation mentioned in 57-16.1, where such real estate is intended to be used exclusively for religious purposes, or for the residence of the minister of any such church or religious body;
3. To the United States, the Commonwealth, or to any county, city, town, district or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth;
4. To the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy;
5. To any nonstock corporation organized exclusively for the purpose of owning or operating a hospital or hospitals not for pecuniary profit;
6. To a corporation upon its organization by persons in control of the corporation in a transaction which qualifies for nonrecognition of gain or loss pursuant to 351 of the Internal Revenue Code as it exists at the time of the conveyance;
7. From a corporation to its stockholders upon complete or partial liquidation of the corporation in a transaction which qualifies for income tax treatment pursuant to 331, 332, 333 or 337 of the Internal Revenue Code as it exists at the time of liquidation;
8. To the surviving or new corporation, partnership, limited partnership, business trust, or limited liability company upon a merger or consolidation to which two or more such entities are parties, or in a reorganization within the meaning of 368 (a) (1) (C) and (F) of the Internal Revenue Code as amended;
9. To a subsidiary corporation from its parent corporation, or from a subsidiary corporation to a parent corporation, if the transaction qualifies for nonrecognition of gain or loss under the Internal Revenue Code as amended;
10. To a partnership or limited liability company, when the grantors are entitled to receive not less than 50 percent of the profits and surplus of such partnership or limited liability company; provided that the transfer to a limited liability company is not a precursor to a transfer of control of the assets of the company to avoid recordation taxes;
11. From a partnership or limited liability company, when the grantees are entitled to receive not less than 50 percent of the profits and surplus of such partnership or limited liability company; provided that the transfer from a limited liability company is not subsequent to a transfer of control of the assets of the company to avoid recordation taxes;
12. To trustees of a revocable inter vivos trust, when the grantors in the deed and the beneficiaries of the trust are the same persons, regardless of whether other beneficiaries may also be named in the trust instrument, when no consideration has passed between the grantor and the beneficiaries; and to the original beneficiaries of a trust from the trustees holding title under a deed in trust;
13. When the grantor is the personal representative of a decedent's estate or trustee under a will or inter vivos trust of which the decedent was the settlor, other than a security trust defined in 55-58.1, and the sole purpose of such transfer is to comply with a devise or bequest in the decedent's will or to transfer title to one or more beneficiaries after the death of the settlor in accordance with a dispositive provision in the trust instrument; or
14. When the grantor is an organization exempt from taxation under 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code that is organized and operated primarily to acquire land and purchase materials to erect or rehabilitate low-cost homes on such land, which homes are sold at cost to persons who otherwise would be unable to afford to buy a home through conventional means, located in Amherst County or the City of Lynchburg.
B. The taxes imposed by 58.1-803 and 58.1-804 shall not apply to any deed of trust or mortgage:
1. Given by an incorporated college or other incorporated institution of learning not conducted for profit;
2. Given by the trustee or trustees of a church or religious body or given by an incorporated church or religious body, or given by a corporation mentioned in 57-16.1;
3. Given by any nonstock corporation organized exclusively for the purpose of owning and/r operating a hospital or hospitals not for pecuniary profit;
4. Given by any local governmental entity or political subdivision of the Commonwealth to secure a debt payable to any other local governmental entity or political subdivision; or
5. Securing a loan made by an organization described in subdivision 14 of subsection A of this section.
C. The tax imposed by 58.1-802 and the fees imposed
by 58.1-802.1 shall not apply to any:
1. Transaction described in subdivisions 6 through 13 of subsection A of this section;
2. Instrument or writing given to secure a debt;
3. Deed conveying real estate from an incorporated college or other incorporated institution of learning not conducted for profit;
4. Deed conveying real estate from the United States, the Commonwealth or any county, city, town, district or other political subdivision thereof;
5. Conveyance of real estate to the Commonwealth or any
county, city, town, district or other political subdivision thereof, if such
political unit is required by law to reimburse the parties taxable pursuant to
58.1-802 or subject to the fee under
58.1-802.1; or
6. Deed conveying real estate from the trustee or trustees of a church or religious body or from an incorporated church or religious body, or from a corporation mentioned in 57-16.1.
D. No recordation tax shall be required for the recordation of any deed of gift between a grantor or grantors and a grantee or grantees when no consideration has passed between the parties. Such deed shall state therein that it is a deed of gift.
E. The tax imposed by 58.1-807 shall not apply to any lease to the United States, the Commonwealth, or any county, city, town, district or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth.
F. The taxes and fees imposed by 58.1-801, 58.1-802, 58.1-802.1,
58.1-807, 58.1-808 and 58.1-814 shall not apply to (i) any deed of
gift conveying real estate or any interest therein to The Nature Conservancy or
(ii) any lease of real property or any interest therein to The Nature
Conservancy, where such deed of gift or lease of real estate is intended to be
used exclusively for the purpose of preserving wilderness, natural or open
space areas.
G. The words "trustee" or "trustees," as used in subdivision 2 of subsection A, subdivision 2 of subsection B, and subdivision 6 of subsection C, include the trustees mentioned in 57-8 and the ecclesiastical officers mentioned in 57-16.
H. No recordation tax levied pursuant to this chapter shall be levied on the release of a contractual right, if the release is contained within a single deed that performs more than one function, and at least one of the other functions performed by the deed is subject to the recordation tax.
I. No recordation tax levied pursuant to this chapter shall be levied on a deed, lease, easement, release, or other document recorded in connection with a concession pursuant to the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995 ( 56-556 et seq.) or similar federal law.
58.1-2403. Exemptions.
No tax shall be imposed as provided in 58.1-2402 or
58.1-2402.1 if the vehicle is:
1. Sold to, rented or used by the United States government or any governmental agency thereof;
2. Sold to, rented or used by the Commonwealth of Virginia or any political subdivision thereof;
3. Registered in the name of a volunteer fire department or rescue squad not operated for profit;
4. Registered to any member of the Mattaponi, Pamunkey, or Chickahominy Indian tribes or any other recognized Indian tribe of the Commonwealth living on the tribal reservation;
5. Transferred incidental to repossession under a recorded lien and ownership is transferred to the lienholder;
6. A manufactured home permanently attached to real estate and included in the sale of real estate;
7. A gift to the spouse, son, or daughter of the transferor. With the exception of a gift to a spouse, this exemption shall not apply to any unpaid obligation assumed by the transferee incidental to the transfer;
8. Transferred from an individual or partnership to a corporation or limited liability company or from a corporation or limited liability company to an individual or partnership if the transfer is incidental to the formation, organization or dissolution of a corporation or limited liability company in which the individual or partnership holds the majority interest;
9. Transferred from a wholly owned subsidiary to the parent corporation or from the parent corporation to a wholly owned subsidiary;
10. Being registered for the first time in this Commonwealth and the applicant holds a valid, assignable title or registration issued to him by another state or a branch of the United States Armed Forces and (i) has owned the vehicle for longer than 12 months or (ii) has owned the vehicle for less than 12 months and provides evidence of a sales tax paid to another state. However, when a vehicle has been purchased by the applicant within the last 12 months and the applicant is unable to provide evidence of a sales tax paid to another state, the applicant shall pay the Virginia sales tax based on the fair market value of the vehicle at the time of registration in Virginia;
11. a. Titled in a Virginia or non-Virginia motor vehicle dealer's name for resale; or
b. Titled in the name of an automotive manufacturer having its headquarters in Virginia, except for any commercially leased vehicle that is not described under subdivision 3 of 46.2-602.2. For purposes of this subdivision, "automotive manufacturer" and "headquarters" means the same as such terms are defined in 46.2-602.2;
12. A motor vehicle having seats for more than seven passengers and sold to an urban or suburban bus line the majority of whose passengers use the buses for traveling a distance of less than 40 miles, one way, on the same day;
13. Purchased in the Commonwealth by a nonresident and a Virginia title is issued for the sole purpose of recording a lien against the vehicle if the vehicle will be registered in a state other than Virginia;
14. A motor vehicle designed for the transportation of 10 or more passengers, purchased by and for the use of a church conducted not for profit;
15. Loaned or leased to a private nonprofit institution of learning, for the sole purpose of use in the instruction of driver's education when such education is a part of such school's curriculum for full-time students;
16. Sold to an insurance company or local government group self-insurance pool, created pursuant to 15.2-2703, for the sole purpose of disposition when such company has paid the registered owner of such vehicle a total loss claim;
17. Owned and used for personal or official purposes by accredited consular or diplomatic officers of foreign governments, their employees or agents, and members of their families, if such persons are nationals of the state by which they are appointed and are not citizens of the United States;
18. A self-contained mobile computerized axial tomography scanner sold to, rented or used by a nonprofit hospital or a cooperative hospital service organization as described in 501 (e) of the United States Internal Revenue Code;
19. A motor vehicle having seats for more than seven passengers and sold to a restricted common carrier or common carrier of passengers;
20. Beginning July 1, 1989, a self-contained mobile unit designed exclusively for human diagnostic or therapeutic service, sold to, rented to, or used by a nonprofit hospital, or a cooperative hospital service organization as described in 501 (e) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, or a nonprofit corporation as defined in 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code, established for research in, diagnosis of, or therapy for human ailments;
21. Transferred, as a gift or through a sale to an organization exempt from taxation under 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code, provided the motor vehicle is not titled and tagged for use by such organization;
22. A motor vehicle sold to an organization which is exempt from taxation under 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code and which is organized for the primary purpose of distributing food, clothing, medicines and other necessities of life to, and providing shelter for, needy persons in the United States and throughout the world;
23. A truck, tractor truck, trailer, or semitrailer, as severally defined in 46.2-100, except trailers and semitrailers not designed or used to carry property and vehicles registered under 46.2-700, with a gross vehicle weight rating or gross combination weight rating of 26,001 pounds or more, in which case no tax shall be imposed pursuant to subdivisions 1 and 3 of subsection A of 58.1-2402;
24. Transferred to the trustees of a revocable inter vivos trust, when the individual titleholder of a Virginia titled motor vehicle and the beneficiaries of the trust are the same persons, regardless of whether other beneficiaries of the trust may also be named in the trust instrument, when no consideration has passed between the titleholder and the beneficiaries; and transferred to the original titleholder from the trustees holding title to the motor vehicle;
25. Transferred to trustees of a revocable inter vivos trust, when the owners of the vehicle and the beneficiaries of the trust are the same persons, regardless of whether other beneficiaries may also be named in the trust instrument, or transferred by trustees of such a trust to beneficiaries of the trust following the death of the grantor, when no consideration has passed between the grantor and the beneficiaries in either case;
26. Sold by a vehicle's lessor to its lessee upon the expiration of the term of the vehicle's lease, if the lessee is a natural person and this natural person has paid the tax levied pursuant to this chapter with respect to the vehicle when he leased it from the lessor, and if the lessee presents an original copy of the lease upon request of the Department of Motor Vehicles or other evidence that the sales tax has been paid to the Commonwealth by the lessee purchasing the vehicle; or
27. Titled in the name of a deceased person and transferred to the spouse or heir, or under the will, of such deceased person.
58.1-2425. Disposition of revenues.
A. Except as provided in 58.1-2402.1 funds collected
hereunder by the Commissioner shall be forthwith paid into the state treasury. Except
as otherwise provided in 58.1-2402.1 and in this
section, these funds shall constitute special funds within the Commonwealth
Transportation Fund. Any balances remaining in these funds at the end of the
year shall be available for use in subsequent years for the purposes set forth
in this chapter, and any interest income on such funds shall accrue to these
funds. The revenue so derived, after refunds have been deducted, is hereby
allocated for the construction, reconstruction and maintenance of highways and the
regulation of traffic thereon and for no other purpose. However, (i) all funds
collected pursuant to the provisions of this chapter from manufactured homes,
as defined in 46.2-100, shall be distributed to the city, town, or county
wherein such manufactured home is to be situated as a dwelling; (ii) all funds
collected from the additional tax imposed by subdivision A 4 of 58.1-2402 on
the rental of daily rental vehicles shall be distributed quarterly to the city,
town, or county wherein such vehicle was delivered to the rentee; (iii)
effective January 1, 1987, an amount equivalent to the net additional revenues
generated by enactments of the 1986 Special Session of the Virginia General
Assembly which amended 46.2-694, 46.2-697, 58.1-2401, 58.1-2402 and this
section shall be distributed to and paid into the Transportation Trust Fund, a
special fund within the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, and are hereby
appropriated to the Commonwealth Transportation Board for transportation needs;
(iv) except as otherwise provided in clause (iii) of this sentence, all moneys
collected from the tax on the gross proceeds from the rental in Virginia of any
motor vehicle pursuant to subdivision A 3 of 58.1-2402 at the tax rate in
effect on December 31, 1986, shall be paid by the Commissioner into the state
treasury and shall be paid into the Rail Enhancement Fund established by
33.1-221.1:1.1; and (v) all additional revenues resulting from the fee imposed
under subdivision A 5 of 58.1-2402 as enacted by the 2004 Session of the
General Assembly shall be used to pay the debt service on the bonds issued by
the Virginia Public Building Authority for the Statewide Agencies Radio System
(STARS) for the Department of State Police pursuant to the authority granted by
the 2004 Session of the General Assembly.
B. As provided in subsection A of 58.1-638, of the funds becoming part of the Transportation Trust Fund pursuant to clause (iii) of subsection A of this section, an aggregate of 4.2 percent shall be set aside as the Commonwealth Port Fund; an aggregate of 2.4 percent shall be set aside as the Commonwealth Airport Fund; and an aggregate of 14.5 percent in fiscal year 1998-1999 and 14.7 percent in fiscal year 1999-2000 and thereafter shall be set aside as the Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund.
58.1-3221.3. Classification of certain commercial and industrial real property and taxation of such property by certain localities.
A. Beginning January 1, 2008, and solely for the purposes of
imposing the tax authorized pursuant to this section, in the counties and
cities that are embraced by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority and
the Hampton Roads Transportation Authority, all real property used
for or zoned to permit commercial or industrial uses is hereby declared to be a
separate class of real property for local taxation. Such classification of real
property shall exclude all residential uses and all multifamily residential
uses, including but not limited to single family residential units,
cooperatives, condominiums, townhouses, apartments, or homes in a subdivision
when leased on a unit by unit basis even though these units may be part of a
larger building or parcel of real estate containing more than four residential
units.
B. In addition to all other taxes and fees permitted by law, (i) the
governing body of any locality embraced by the Northern Virginia Transportation
Authority may, by ordinance, annually impose on all real property in the
locality specially classified in subsection A: an amount of real property tax,
in addition to such amount otherwise authorized by law, at a rate not to exceed
$0.25 per $100 of assessed value as the governing body may, by ordinance,
impose upon the annual assessed value of all real property used for or zoned to
permit commercial or industrial uses; and (ii) the
governing body of any locality embraced by the Hampton Roads Transportation
Authority may, by ordinance, annually impose on all real property in the
locality specially classified in subsection A: an amount of real property tax,
in addition to such amount otherwise authorized by law, at a rate not to exceed
$0.10 per $100 of assessed value as the governing body may, by ordinance,
impose upon the annual assessed value of all real property used for or zoned to
permit commercial or industrial uses. The authority granted in
this subsection shall be subject to the following conditions:
(1) Upon appropriation, all revenues generated from the additional real property tax imposed shall be used exclusively for transportation purposes that benefit the locality imposing the tax; and
(2) The additional real property tax imposed shall be levied, administered, enforced, and collected in the same manner as set forth in Subtitle III of Title 58.1 for the levy, administration, enforcement, and collection of local taxes. In addition, the local assessor shall separately assess and set forth upon the locality's land book the fair market value of that portion of property that is defined as a separate class of real property for local taxation in accordance with the provisions of this section.
C. Beginning January 1, 2008, in lieu of the authority set
forth in subsections A and B above and solely for the purposes of imposing the
tax authorized pursuant to this section, in the counties and cities embraced by
the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority and the Hampton Roads
Transportation Authority, all real property used for or zoned to
permit commercial or industrial uses is hereby declared to be a separate class
of real property for local taxation. Such classification of real property shall
exclude all residential uses and all multifamily residential uses, including
but not limited to single family residential units, cooperatives, condominiums,
townhouses, apartments, or homes in a subdivision when leased on a unit by unit
basis even though these units may be part of a larger building or parcel of
real estate containing more than four residential units.
D. In addition to all other taxes and fees permitted by law, (i) the
governing body of any locality embraced by the Northern Virginia Transportation
Authority may, by ordinance, create within its boundaries, one or more special
regional transportation tax districts and, thereafter, may, by ordinance,
impose upon the real property located in special regional transportation tax
districts specially classified in subsection C within such special regional
transportation tax districts: an amount of real property tax, in addition to
such amounts otherwise authorized by law, at a rate not to exceed $0.25 per
$100 of assessed value as the governing body may, by ordinance, impose upon the
annual assessed value of all real property used for or zoned to permit
commercial or industrial uses; and, (ii) the governing body of any locality
embraced by the Hampton Roads Transportation Authority may, by ordinance,
create within its boundaries, one or more special regional transportation tax
districts and, thereafter, may, by ordinance, impose upon the real property
specially classified in subsection C within such special regional
transportation tax districts: an amount of real property tax, in addition to
such amounts otherwise authorized by law, at a rate not to exceed $0.10 per
$100 of assessed value as the governing body may, by ordinance, impose upon the
annual assessed value of all real property used for or zoned to permit
commercial or industrial uses. The authority granted in this
subsection shall be subject to the following conditions:
(1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, upon appropriation, all revenues generated from the additional real property taxes imposed in accordance with subsection C and this subsection shall be used for transportation purposes that benefit the special regional transportation tax district to which such revenue is attributable;
(2) Any local ordinance adopted in accordance with the provisions of subsection C and this subsection shall include the requirement that the additional real property taxes so authorized are to be imposed annually in accordance with applicable law;
(3) Any locality that imposes the additional real property taxes set forth in subsections A and B shall not be permitted to also impose the additional real property taxes set forth in subsection C and this subsection. In addition, any locality electing to impose the additional real property taxes on all real property located in such locality that is specially classified in subsections A and B must do so in the manner prescribed in subsections A and B and not by creation of a special transportation tax district as set forth in subsection C and this subsection. The creation of such special regional transportation tax districts shall not, however, affect the authority of a locality to establish tax districts pursuant to other provisions of law;
(4) The total revenues generated from the additional real
property taxes imposed in accordance with subsection C and this subsection
shall not be less than 85% of the revenues estimated to be generated when
imposing the additional real property taxes in accordance with subsections A
and B at the rate of $0.25 per $100 of assessed value in any locality embraced
by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority and at the rate of
$0.10 per $100 of assessed value in any locality embraced by the Hampton Roads
Transportation Authority; and
(5) The additional real property taxes imposed pursuant to subsection C and this subsection shall be levied, administered, enforced, and collected, in the same manner as set forth in Subtitle III of Title 58.1 for the levy, administration, enforcement, and collection of all local taxes. In addition, the local assessor shall separately assess and set forth upon the locality's land book the fair market value of that portion of property that is defined as separate class of real property for local taxation in accordance with the provisions of this section.
2. That the sixteenth enactment of Chapter 896 of the Acts of Assembly of 2007 is amended and reenacted as follows:
16. That, as provided under 58.1-3221.2, the tax authorized
thereunder may only be imposed by a city or county embraced by the Northern
Virginia Transportation Authority established under 15.2-4830, or
a city or county embraced by the Hampton Roads Transportation Authority
established under 33.1-391.7.
3. That the liabilities, assets, responsibilities, and functions of the Hampton Roads Transportation Authority, abolished pursuant to this act, shall be transferred as follows: (i) any outstanding obligations of the Authority under any contract entered into by the Authority prior to its abolition shall be transferred to and assumed by the Virginia Department of Transportation; (ii) any and all planning responsibilities and functions vested in the Authority prior to its abolition shall be transferred to and assumed by the Hampton Roads Metropolitan Planning Organization; (iii) the power to impose and collect tolls for use of highways, bridges, and tunnels granted the Authority prior to its abolition shall be transferred to and assumed by the Commonwealth Transportation Board and, in addition, the Board shall have the power to impose and collect tolls for use of both the Midtown and Downtown Tunnels connecting the Cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth if improvements are made to either such tunnel that increase its traffic-carrying capacity; (iv) any assets of the Authority shall be deposited into the Transportation Trust Fund established pursuant to 33.1-23.03:1 of the Code of Virginia, and allocated by the Commonwealth Transportation Board to projects within the Hampton Roads highway construction district; and (v) in all other regards, the Commonwealth, and where appropriate the Commonwealth Transportation Board, shall be the successor in interest to the Hampton Roads Transportation Authority.
4. That Chapter 10.2 ( 33.1-391.6 through 33.1-391.15) of Title 33.1 and 46.2-755.1, 46.2-755.2, 46.2-1167.1, 58.1-625.1, 58.1-802.1, 58.1-1724.3, 58.1-1724.5, 58.1-1724.6, 58.1-1724.7, and 58.1-2402.1 of the Code of Virginia and the fifth, sixth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and nineteenth enactments of Chapter 896 of the Acts of Assembly of 2007 are repealed.