CODE OF VIRGINIA

AGREEMENT FOR JOINT EXERCISE OF POWERS; GOVERNING BOARD, ETC., TO ACT ON BEHALF
OF POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS; POWERS OF BOARD, ETC (§ 5.1-36)

The agreement provided for in § 5.1-35 may provide for the creation of a
governing board, commission, authority or body empowered to have and exercise,
on behalf of the several political subdivisions which are parties to such
agreement, the powers, rights and authority conferred on such political
subdivisions by this article. Members of the governing bodies of the several
political subdivisions may serve as a member of a board, commission, authority
or body formed pursuant to § 5.1-35. Such agreement shall specify the name of
the board, commission, authority or body and its composition and prescribe its
powers and duties which may include powers to establish, construct, manage, and
operate an airport, acquire, hold and dispose of property but on behalf of the
several political subdivisions, including the exercise on their behalf of the
power of eminent domain. If any such board, commission, authority or body is
created, all proceedings in connection with the establishment, construction,
management and operation of the airport, including application for and issuance
of any license required therefor, shall be in its name. The intent of § 5.1-35
and this section is that any such board, commission, authority or body
established by two or more political subdivisions or through action of the
General Assembly may have the same powers granted to a city, town and county but
in no case will such powers be greater than those granted to a city, town or
county. Any joint airport authority created pursuant to this chapter and in
existence on July 1, 1994, shall be continued in lawful existence under the
terms and provisions of this chapter even though all the political subdivisions
except one withdraw from the joint airport authority.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 5-24.1; 1958, c. 523; 1966, c. 576; 1970, c. 717; 1993,
c. 81; 1995, c. 453.