Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+CHAP0365
Timestamp: 2018-01-20 22:34:29
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CHAPTER 365 An Act to amend and reenact § 4.1-208 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 15.2-2288.3:1, relating to breweries located on farms; local regulation of certain activities. [S 430] Approved March 27, 2014
1. That § 4.1-208 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted and that the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 15.2-2288.3:1 as follows:
§ 15.2-2288.3:1. Limited brewery license; local regulation of certain activities.
A. It is the policy of the Commonwealth to preserve the economic vitality of the Virginia beer industry while maintaining appropriate land use authority to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the Commonwealth and to permit the reasonable expectation of uses in specific zoning categories. Local restriction upon such activities and public events of breweries licensed pursuant to subdivision 2 of § 4.1-208 to market and sell their products shall be reasonable and shall take into account the economic impact on such licensed brewery of such restriction, the agricultural nature of such activities and events, and whether such activities and events are usual and customary for such licensed breweries. Usual and customary activities and events at such licensed breweries shall be permitted unless there is a substantial impact on the health, safety, or welfare of the public. No local ordinance regulating noise, other than outdoor amplified music, arising from activities and events at such licensed breweries shall be more restrictive than that in the general noise ordinance. In authorizing outdoor amplified music at such licensed brewery, the locality shall consider the effect on adjacent property owners and nearby residents.
B. No locality shall regulate any of the following activities of a brewery licensed under subdivision 2 of § 4.1-208:
C. Any locality may exempt any brewery licensed in accordance with subdivision 2 of § 4.1-208 on land zoned agricultural from any local regulation of minimum parking, road access, or road upgrade requirements.