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2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5341. Rules and regulations not to be inconsistent

An authority shall have power to make and from time to time amend and repeal bylaws, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this chapter, to carry into effect the powers and purposes of the authority.
Code 1950, § 32-256; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1576; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5342. Incidental powers

An authority shall have power, in addition to all of the other powers herein conferred upon it, to do all things necessary and convenient to carry out the powers expressly given in this chapter.
Code 1950, § 32-257; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1577; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5343. Eminent domain

The authority shall have the right to acquire by eminent domain any real property, including fixtures and improvements, which it may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter after the adoption by it of a resolution declaring that the acquisition of the property described therein is in the public interest and necessary for public use. The authority may exercise the power of eminent domain pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 2 (§ 25.1-200 et seq.) of Title 25.1 and any applicable statutory provisions in force or hereafter enacted for the exercise of the power of eminent domain by cities.
Property already devoted to a public use may be acquired. No property belonging to any locality, government, religious corporation, unincorporated church or charitable corporation may be acquired without its consent.
Code 1950, § 32-258; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1578; 1997, c. 587; 2003, c. 940; 2005, c. 928; 2006, c. 673.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5344. Contracts with federal government

The authority is empowered to borrow money and accept grants from the federal government for or in aid of the construction of any hospital project which such authority is authorized by this chapter to undertake, to take over any land acquired by the federal government for the construction of a hospital project, to take over or lease or manage any hospital project constructed or owned by the federal government, and to these ends, to enter into such contracts, trust indentures, leases, or other agreements that the federal government shall have the right to supervise and approve the construction, maintenance and operation of such hospital project. Pursuant to this chapter an authority may do any and all things necessary to secure the financial aid and the cooperation of the federal government in the construction, maintenance and operation of any hospital project of the authority.
Code 1950, § 32-259; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1579; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5345. Security for funds deposited by authorities; deposit in certain savings accounts, etc., authorized

The authority may by resolution provide that all moneys deposited by it shall be secured:
1. By obligations of the United States or of the Commonwealth of a market value equal at all times to the amount of such deposits;
2. By any securities in which trustees, guardians, executors, administrators and others acting in a fiduciary capacity may legally invest funds within their control; or
3. By an undertaking with such sureties as shall be approved by the authority faithfully to keep and pay over upon the order of the authority any such deposits and agreed interest thereon.
All banks and trust companies are authorized to give any such security for such deposits.
Deposit of such funds in savings accounts and certificates of savings institutions which are under state supervision and of federal associations organized under the laws of the United States and under federal supervision, is hereby authorized, provided that such institution's deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or other federal insurance agency.
Code 1950, § 32-260; 1976, c. 281, § 15.1-1580; 1979, c. 719; 1990, c. 3; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5346. Authority to issue

The authority shall have power and is hereby authorized from time to time in its discretion to issue bonds for any of its purposes, including the payment of all or any part of the cost of any hospital project and the refunding of any bonds previously issued by it. Bonds may be issued under this chapter notwithstanding any debt or other limitation prescribed in any statute and without obtaining the consent of any locality, government or any commission, board, bureau or agency of any of the foregoing; and without any other proceedings or the happening of other conditions or things than those proceedings, conditions or things which are specifically required by this chapter.
Code 1950, § 32-261; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1581; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5347. How payable

The principal and interest on such bonds shall be payable from such sources as the authority may determine, including (without limiting the generality of the foregoing) (i) its revenues generally, (ii) exclusively from the revenues and receipts of a particular hospital project, or (iii) exclusively from the revenues and receipts of certain designated hospital projects, whether they are financed in whole or in part from the proceeds of such bonds. The bonds may be additionally secured by a pledge of any grant or contribution from any locality or from any government or governmental authority.
Code 1950, § 32-262; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1582; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5348. Commissioners not liable

Neither the commissioners of the authority nor any person executing the bonds shall be liable personally on the bonds by reason of the issuance thereof.
Code 1950, § 32-263; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1583; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5349. Bond indebtedness

The bonds and other obligations of the authority, and such bonds and obligations shall so state on their face, shall not be a debt of any city in which the authority is located or of the Commonwealth, and neither the Commonwealth nor any such city shall be liable thereon. In no event shall they be payable out of any funds or properties other than those of the authority. The bonds shall not constitute an indebtedness within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory debt limitation of the laws of the Commonwealth.
Code 1950, § 32-264; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1584; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5350. Form

The bonds of the authority shall be authorized by its resolution and shall be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, not exceeding sixty years from their respective dates, bear interest at such rate or rates payable at such time or times, be in such denominations (which may be made interchangeable), be in such form, either coupon or registered, carry such registration privileges, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places, and be subject to such terms of redemption, with or without premium, as such resolution or its trust indenture may provide.
Code 1950, § 32-265; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1585; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5351. Sale

The bonds may be sold at public or private sale at such price or prices as the authority determines.
Code 1950, § 32-266; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1586; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5352. Interim certificates

Pending the authorization, preparation, execution or delivery of definitive bonds, the authority may issue interim certificates, or other temporary obligations, to the purchaser of such bonds. Such interim certificates, or other temporary obligations, shall be in such form, contain such terms, conditions and provisions, bear such date or dates, and evidence such agreements, relating to their discharge or payment or the delivery of definitive bonds as the authority may by resolution or trust indenture determine.
Code 1950, § 32-267; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1587; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5353. Signature of former officers

If any of the officers whose signatures appear on any bonds or coupons cease to be such officers before the delivery of the bonds, their signatures shall be valid and sufficient for all purposes as if they had remained in office until such delivery.
Code 1950, § 32-268; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1588; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5354. Purchase by authority

The authority shall have the power out of any funds available therefor to purchase any bonds issued by it. Bonds payable exclusively from the revenues of a designated project or projects shall only be purchased with the revenues available therefor. All bonds so purchased shall be canceled. This section shall not apply to the redemption of bonds.
Code 1950, § 32-269; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1589; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5355. Negotiability

Any provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bonds, interim certificates, or other obligations issued pursuant to this chapter shall be fully negotiable.
Code 1950, § 32-270; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1590; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5357. Further provisions as to trust indenture or bond resolution; security required of depository of proceeds of bonds

In the discretion of the authority, any bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter may be secured by a trust indenture by and between the authority and a corporate trustee or trustees, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within the Commonwealth. Such trust indenture or the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds may pledge or assign the fees, rents and other charges to be received or proceeds of or rights under any contract or contracts pledged. Such trust indenture or resolution may contain such provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights and remedies of the bondholders as may be reasonable and proper and not in violation of law, including particularly the appointment of a receiver for any hospital project or other property of the authority from which the revenues have been pledged and such other provisions as have hereinabove been specifically authorized to be included in any trust indenture or resolution of the authority. Any bank or trust company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth acting as depository of the proceeds of bonds or of revenues or other moneys may furnish such indemnifying bonds or pledge such securities as may be required by the authority. Any such trust indenture or resolution may set forth the rights and remedies of the bondholders and of the trustee or trustees and may restrict individual rights of action by bondholders. In addition to the foregoing, any such trust indenture or resolution may contain such other provisions as the authority may deem reasonable and proper for the security of the bondholders. All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of such trust indenture or resolution may be treated as a part of the cost of the operation of a project.
Code 1950, § 32-271.1; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1592; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5358. Fees, rents and charges for use of project and facilities; sinking fund

The authority is hereby authorized to fix, revise, charge and collect fees, rents and other charges for the use of any project and the facilities thereof. Such fees, rents and other charges shall be so fixed and adjusted as to provide, together with other revenues determined by the authority to be available, a fund sufficient to pay the cost of maintaining, repairing and operating the project, the principal of and interest on such bonds as they become due and payable and the amounts necessary to create and maintain reserves for such purposes and for other purposes of the authority. Such fees, rents and charges shall not be subject to supervision or regulation by any locality or by any commission, board, bureau or agency of any of the foregoing. The authority may provide in the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds, or in the trust indenture securing the same, for setting aside any part or all of the fees, rents and other charges received by it in a sinking or other similar fund which is hereby pledged to, and charged with, the payment of the principal of and the interest on such bonds, as they become due, and the redemption price or the purchase price of such bonds retired by call or purchase as therein provided. Such pledge shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made. The fees, rents and charges so pledged and thereafter received by the authority shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the authority, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof. Neither the resolution nor trust indenture need be filed or recorded except in the records of the authority. The use and disposition of moneys to the credit of a sinking or other similar fund shall be subject to the provisions of such resolution or trust indenture. Except as may otherwise be provided in such resolution or trust indenture, the sinking or other similar fund shall be a fund for all such bonds without distinction or priority of one over another.
Code 1950, § 32-271.2; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1593; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5359. Moneys received deemed trust funds

All moneys received pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds or as revenues, shall be deemed to be trust funds to be held and applied solely as provided in this chapter. Any officer with whom, or any bank or trust company with which, such moneys are deposited shall act as trustee of such moneys and shall hold and apply the same for the purposes hereof, subject to the provisions of this chapter and the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds or the trust indenture securing the same.
Code 1950, § 32-271.3; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1594; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5360. Protection and enforcement of rights and duties under chapter

Any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter, or of any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under any trust indenture securing the same, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by such trust indenture or any resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds, may, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, injunction, mandamus or other proceedings, protect and enforce any and all rights under the laws of this Commonwealth or granted by this chapter or under such trust indenture or resolution and may enforce and compel the performance of all duties required by this chapter or by such trust indenture or resolution to be performed by the authority or by any officer, employee or agent thereof, including the fixing, charging and collection of fees, rents and other charges.
Code 1950, § 32-271.4; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1595; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5361. Exemption from taxation

The exercise of the powers granted by this chapter shall be in all respects for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Commonwealth and for the promotion of their safety, health, welfare, convenience and prosperity. The operation and maintenance of any hospital project which the authority is authorized to undertake will constitute the performance of an essential governmental function; therefore, the authority shall not be required to pay any taxes or assessments upon any hospital project acquired or constructed by it. The bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter, their transfer and the income therefrom, including any profit made on the sale thereof, shall at all times be free and exempt from taxation by the Commonwealth and any political subdivision thereof.
Code 1950, § 32-271.5; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1596; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5362. Bonds legal investments; deposit with public agencies

Bonds issued by the authority under the provisions of this chapter are hereby made securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the Commonwealth and all its political subdivisions, all insurance companies, trust companies, banking associations, investment companies, executors, trustees and other fiduciaries may properly and legally invest funds, including capital in their control or belonging to them. Such bonds are hereby made securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and received by any state or municipal officer or any agency or political subdivision of the Commonwealth for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or obligations of the Commonwealth is now or may hereafter be authorized by law.
Code 1950, § 32-271.6; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1597; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5363. Chapter supplemental; application of other laws; consent of local governing bodies or other agencies not required

The foregoing sections of this chapter shall be deemed to provide a complete, additional and alternative method for doing the things authorized thereby and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws; the issuance of revenue bonds and revenue refunding bonds under the provisions of this chapter need not comply with the requirements of any other laws applicable to the issuance of bonds. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this chapter, none of the powers granted to the authority under the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to the supervision or regulation or require the approval or consent of any locality or any commission, board, bureau or agency of any of the foregoing.
Code 1950, § 32-271.7; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1598; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5364. Liberal construction

This chapter, being necessary for the welfare of the Commonwealth and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes hereof.
Code 1950, § 32-271.8; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1599; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587; 2015, c. 709.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5365. Proceedings for dissolution

Whenever it appears to the commissioners of an authority that the need, as provided in § 15.2-5305, for such authority in the city in which it was created no longer exists, upon petition by the commissioners to the circuit court for such city, after giving to the city ten days' notice and upon the production of satisfactory evidence in support of such petition, the court may, in its discretion, enter an order declaring that the need for such authority in the city no longer exists and approving a plan for completing the business of the authority, the payment or assumption of its obligations, and the transfer of its assets.
Code 1950, § 32-275.1; 1962, c. 395, § 15.1-1600; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5366. When powers and duties cease to exist

If the court enters an order, as provided in § 15.2-5365, that the need for such authority no longer exists, except for completing its affairs in accordance with the plan approved by the court, its authorities, powers and duties to transact business or to function shall cease to exist as of the date set forth in the order of the court.
Code 1950, § 32-275.2; 1962, c. 395, § 15.1-1601; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities › § 15.2-5367. Appeal

The authority or the city may take an appeal from the judgment of the court to the Court of Appeals, and the appeal shall be heard and determined without reference to the principles of demurrer to evidence. The trial court shall certify the facts in the case to the Court of Appeals and the evidence shall be considered as on appeal in proceedings under Chapter 2 (§ 25.1-200 et seq.) of Title 25.1. By consent of both parties of record, the petition may be dismissed at any time before final judgment on the appeal. The authority or the city may appeal any judgment of the Court of Appeals rendered pursuant to this section to the Supreme Court. If the Supreme Court grants the petition for appeal, the appeal shall be heard consistent with the procedures set forth in this section. By consent of both parties of record, the petition may be dismissed at any time before final judgment on the appeal.
Code 1950, § 32-275.3; 1962, c. 395, § 15.1-1602; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587; 2003, c. 940; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 489.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53.1 - Southwest Virginia Health Authority › § 15.2-5368. Southwest Virginia Health Authority established

A. There is hereby established a Health Authority for the LENOWISCO and Cumberland Plateau Planning District Commissions, the Counties of Smyth and Washington, and the City of Bristol.
B. The General Assembly recognizes that rural communities such as those served by the Authority confront unique challenges in the effort to improve health care outcomes and access to quality health care. It is important to facilitate the provision of quality, cost-efficient medical care to rural patients. The provision of care by local providers is important to enhancing, fostering, and creating opportunities that advance health status and provide health-related economic benefits. The Authority shall establish regional health goals directed at improving access to care, advancing health status, targeting regional health issues, promoting technological advancement, ensuring accountability of the cost of care, enhancing academic engagement in regional health, strengthening the workforce for health-related careers, and improving health entity collaboration and regional integration where appropriate.
C. Technological and improved scientific methods have contributed to the improvement of health care in the Commonwealth. The cost of improved technology and improved scientific methods for the provision of hospital care, particularly in rural communities, contributes substantially to the increasing cost of hospital care. Cost increases make it increasingly difficult for hospitals in rural areas of the Commonwealth, including those areas served by the Authority, to offer care. Cooperative agreements among hospitals and between hospitals and others for the provision of health care services may foster improvements in the quality of health care, moderate increases in cost, improve access to needed services in rural areas of the Commonwealth, and enhance the likelihood that smaller hospitals in the Commonwealth will remain open in beneficial service to their communities.
2007, c. 676; 2009, c. 464; 2014, c. 236; 2015, c. 741.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53.1 - Southwest Virginia Health Authority › § 15.2-5371. Decisions of Authority

A majority of the Authority shall constitute a quorum for the purposes of conducting its business and exercising its powers and for all other purposes. Actions of the Authority shall receive the affirmative vote of a majority of the quorum to be effective. No vacancy on the Authority shall impair the right of a quorum to exercise all rights and perform all the duties of the Authority. The Authority shall determine the times and places of its regular meetings. Special meetings of the Authority shall be held when requested by two or more members of the Authority. Any such request for a special meeting shall be in writing, and the request shall specify the time and place of the meeting and the matters to be considered at the meeting. A reasonable effort shall be made to provide each member with notice of any special meeting. No matter not specified in the notice shall be considered at such special meeting unless all the members of the Authority are present.
2007, c. 676; 2010, c. 575.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53.1 - Southwest Virginia Health Authority › § 15.2-5372. Payment to members of Authority

The members of the Authority may be paid for their services compensation in either (i) the amount provided in the general appropriation act for members of the General Assembly engaged in legislative business between sessions or (ii) a lesser amount as determined by the Authority. Members may be reimbursed for all reasonable and necessary expenses provided in §§ 2.2-2813 and 2.2-2825, if approved by the Authority. Funding for the costs of compensation and expenses of the members shall be provided by the Authority.
2007, c. 676.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53.1 - Southwest Virginia Health Authority › § 15.2-5373. Executive director; staff

The Authority shall appoint an executive director, who shall be authorized to employ such staff as necessary to enable the Authority to perform its duties as set forth in this chapter. No such person shall contemporaneously serve as a member of the Authority. The Authority is authorized to determine the duties of such staff and to fix salaries and compensation from such funds as may be received or appropriated.
2007, c. 676.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53.1 - Southwest Virginia Health Authority › § 15.2-5375. Appropriations to Authority

Any participating locality is authorized to make appropriations to the Authority from available funds or from funds provided for the purpose by bond issues for the acquisition of land or improvements to land or the construction, improvement, maintenance, and operation of any hospital or health center operated or controlled or proposed to be operated or controlled by the Authority. The participating locality may also transfer to the Authority, with or without consideration, real or personal property for any or all of such purposes.
2007, c. 676.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53.1 - Southwest Virginia Health Authority › § 15.2-5376. Issuance of bonds by participating localities and validation thereof

Any participating locality may issue its general obligation bonds in the manner provided in the Public Finance Act (§ 15.2-2600 et seq.) in furtherance of the establishment, construction, or enlargement of a hospital or health center. The industrial development authority of any participating locality may issue its bonds in the manner provided in the Industrial Development and Revenue Bond Act (§ 15.2-4900 et seq.) in furtherance of the establishment, construction, enlargement, or operation of a nonprofit or not-for-profit hospital or health center with the concurrence of the governing body of the participating locality.
2007, c. 676; 2013, c. 660.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53.1 - Southwest Virginia Health Authority › § 15.2-5377. Issuance and sale of bonds

Any bonds issued by the Authority may be issued in one or more series, shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, bear interest at such rate or rates payable at such time or times, be in such denominations, be in such form, either coupon or registered, carry such registration privileges, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places, be subject to such terms of redemption, with or without premium, as the Authority by resolution may prescribe. Such bonds may be sold at public or private sale for such price or prices as the Authority determines.
2007, c. 676.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53.1 - Southwest Virginia Health Authority › § 15.2-5378. Provisions to secure payment of bonds

Any Authority resolution authorizing the issuance of any bonds may contain provisions, which shall be a part of the contract with the holders of the bonds, (i) pledging any or all revenues of the hospital or health center to secure the payment of the interest on such bonds and to create a sinking fund to retire the principal thereof at maturity; (ii) providing for the granting of a lien on or the creation of a security interest in any property, real or personal, of the Authority as security for the payment of the principal of, and interest on, such bonds and the due and punctual performance of any agreements made in connection therewith; (iii) providing for such schedule of fees and charges as will produce funds sufficient to pay operating costs and debt service until such bonds are retired; and (iv) prescribing the rights, obligations, powers, and duties of the Authority, the trustee under any trust indenture under which the bonds are issued, and the bondholders, in connection with or pertaining to such bonds.
2007, c. 676.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53.1 - Southwest Virginia Health Authority › § 15.2-5379. Bonds made legal investments

Any bonds issued pursuant to the authority of this chapter are hereby made securities in which all public officers and bodies of this Commonwealth and all political subdivisions thereof, all insurance companies and associations, and all savings banks and savings institutions, including savings and loan associations, in the Commonwealth may properly and legally invest funds in their control.
2007, c. 676.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53.1 - Southwest Virginia Health Authority › § 15.2-5380. Bonds payable from revenues of hospital or health centers

Any bonds issued under this chapter shall be payable only from the revenues and receipts of the hospital or health center for the acquisition, establishment, or construction of which the bonds were issued and from any property the Authority has made subject to a lien to secure such bonds. The bonds and other obligations of the Authority shall not be a debt of any locality or of the Commonwealth, and neither the Authority members nor any person executing the bonds or other obligations shall be liable personally thereon by reason of the issuance thereof.
2007, c. 676.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53.1 - Southwest Virginia Health Authority › § 15.2-5381. Property of Authority exempt from foreclosure or execution sale and judgment lien

No interest of the Authority in any property, real or personal, shall be subject to sale by foreclosure of a mortgage, trust indenture, or any other instrument, either through judicial proceedings or the exercise of a power of sale contained in the instrument. All Authority property shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution, and no execution or judicial process shall issue against the Authority. No judgment against the Authority shall be a charge or lien upon its property, real or personal.
Nothing contained in this section shall prohibit the owner of a leasehold interest granted by the Authority from granting a lien or other security interest in his leasehold that would be subject to sale or foreclosure as provided in any instrument creating the lien or other security interest. Nothing contained in this section shall prohibit the Authority from granting a lien on or creating a security interest in Authority property, real or personal, to secure any bonds issued under this chapter, any of which property will be subject to sale or foreclosure as provided in the instrument granting such lien or creating such security interest.
2007, c. 676.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53.1 - Southwest Virginia Health Authority › § 15.2-5382. Receiver

The Authority may, by its trust indenture given to secure bond issues or other obligations, provide for the appointment of a receiver of the hospital or health center or that part thereof acquired or constructed from funds received from a sale of bonds secured by the pledge of its revenues. If a receiver is appointed, he may enter, take possession of, operate, and maintain such hospital or health center or part thereof; collect and receive all fees, rents, revenues, or other charges arising therefrom in the same manner as the Authority might do; keep such moneys in a separate account or accounts; and apply the moneys in accordance with the obligations of the Authority as the court directs.
2007, c. 676.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53.1 - Southwest Virginia Health Authority › § 15.2-5383. Eminent domain

The Authority shall have the right to acquire by eminent domain any real property, including fixtures and improvements, that it deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter after it adopts a resolution declaring that the acquisition of the property described therein is in the public interest and necessary for public use. The Authority may exercise the power of eminent domain pursuant to the provisions of any applicable statutory provision now in force or hereafter enacted for the exercise of the power of eminent domain by any locality.
Property already devoted to a public use may be acquired; however, no property belonging to any locality, government, religious corporation, unincorporated church, or charitable corporation may be acquired without its consent.
2007, c. 676.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53.1 - Southwest Virginia Health Authority › § 15.2-5384. Records and reports

The Authority shall keep and preserve complete records of its operations and transactions, which records shall be open to inspection by the participating subdivisions at all times. It shall make reports to such subdivisions annually and at such other times as they may require.
2007, c. 676.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53.1 - Southwest Virginia Health Authority › § 15.2-5385. Chapter supplemental; application of other laws; consent of local governing bodies or other agencies not required

The provisions of this chapter shall be deemed to provide a complete, additional, and alternative method for doing the things authorized herein and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws; the issuance of revenue bonds and revenue refunding bonds under the provisions of this chapter need not comply with the requirements of any other laws applicable to the issuance of bonds. Activities conducted pursuant to cooperative agreements approved and supervised by the Commissioner are immunized from challenge or scrutiny under the Commonwealth's antitrust laws. It is the intention of the General Assembly that this chapter shall also immunize cooperative agreements approved and supervised by the Commissioner from challenge or scrutiny under federal antitrust law. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this chapter, none of the powers granted to the Authority under the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to the supervision or regulation or require the approval or consent of any locality or any authority, board, bureau, or agency of any of the foregoing. Nothing in this chapter shall affect the authority of the Attorney General to conduct appropriate reviews under Chapter 20 (§ 32.1-373 et seq.) of Title 32.1.
2007, c. 676; 2015, c. 741.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 53.1 - Southwest Virginia Health Authority › § 15.2-5386. Limitations of the Authority

A. No provision related to the establishment, powers, or authorities of the Southwest Virginia Health Authority, its subsidiaries, or successors, shall apply to the facilities, equipment, or appropriations of any state agency including, but not limited to, the Virginia Department of Health and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services.
B. The Authority, its subsidiaries or successors, shall not be exempt from the Certificate of Public Need law and regulations or licensure standards of the Virginia Department of Health.
C. No provision of this chapter related to the establishment, power or authority of the Authority or participating localities shall apply to or affect any hospital as defined in § 32.1-123.
2007, c. 676; 2009, cc. 464, 813, 840.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 54 - Electric Authorities Act › § 15.2-5401. Intent of General Assembly

It is the intent of the General Assembly by the passage of this chapter to authorize the creation of electric authorities by localities of this Commonwealth, either acting jointly or separately, in order to provide facilities for the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power and energy, and to vest such authorities with all powers that may be necessary to enable them to accomplish such purposes, which powers shall be exercised for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Commonwealth.
It is further the intent of the General Assembly that in order to achieve the economies and efficiencies made possible by the proper planning, financing, sizing and location of facilities for the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power and energy which are not practical for any locality or electric authority acting alone, and to insure an adequate, reliable and economical supply of electric power and energy to the inhabitants of the Commonwealth, electric authorities shall be authorized to jointly cooperate and plan, finance, develop, own and operate with other electric authorities and other public corporations and governmental entities and investor-owned electric power companies and electric power cooperative associations or corporations, within or outside the Commonwealth, electric generation, transmission, and distribution facilities in order to provide for the present and future requirements of the electric authorities and their participating localities. It is further the intent of the General Assembly that an authority that is created by the Town of Elkton and that is limited by its articles of incorporation to having the Town of Elkton as its sole member throughout its life is authorized to become an authority to distribute electric energy for retail sale. The distribution of electric energy for retail sale by an authority that is created by the Town of Elkton and that is limited by its articles of incorporation to having the Town of Elkton as its sole member throughout its life shall be limited to the geographic area that was served as of January 1, 2006, by the Town of Elkton.
Accordingly, it is determined that the exercise of the powers granted herein will benefit the inhabitants of the Commonwealth and serve a valid public purpose in improving and otherwise promoting their health, welfare and prosperity.
This chapter shall be liberally construed in conformity with these intentions.
1979, c. 416, § 15.1-1604; 1997, c. 587; 2006, cc. 929, 941.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 54 - Electric Authorities Act › § 15.2-5403. Creation of electric authority; referendum

The governing body of a governmental unit may by ordinance, or the governing bodies of two or more governmental units may by concurrent ordinances or agreement authorized by ordinance of each of the respective governmental units, create an electric authority, under any appropriate name and title containing the words "electric authority." Upon compliance with the provisions of this section and §§ 15.2-5404 and 15.2-5405, the authority shall be a political subdivision of the Commonwealth and a body politic and corporate. Any such ordinance shall be adopted in accordance with applicable general or special laws or charter provisions providing for the adoption of ordinances of the particular governmental unit, and shall be published once a week for two successive weeks prior to adoption in a newspaper of general circulation within the governmental unit. The second publication shall not be sooner than one calendar week after the first publication.
No governmental unit shall participate as a member of such an authority unless and until such participation is authorized by a majority of the voters voting in a referendum held in the governmental unit on the question of whether or not the governmental unit should participate in the authority. The referendum shall be held as provided in §§ 24.2-682 and 24.2-684. The foregoing referendum requirement shall not apply to the Town of Elkton if the Town creates an authority by an ordinance that includes articles of incorporation which comply with the provisions of § 15.2-5404 and also set forth a statement that such authority shall have only the Town as its sole member throughout its life.
1979, c. 416, § 15.1-1606; 1997, c. 587; 2006, cc. 929, 941.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 54 - Electric Authorities Act › § 15.2-5404. Articles of incorporation

Each ordinance or agreement providing for the creation of an authority shall include articles of incorporation which shall set forth:
1. The name of the authority and the address of its principal office;
2. The names of the governmental units which are to be the initial members of the authority;
3. The purpose or purposes for which the authority is to be created;
4. The number of directors who shall initially serve on the board of directors which shall exercise the powers of the authority, the number of directors from each member governmental unit, and the names, addresses and terms of office of the initial directors of the authority; and
5. Any other provisions for regulating the business of the authority or the conduct of its affairs, including provisions for amendment of the articles of incorporation.
1979, c. 416, § 15.1-1607; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 54 - Electric Authorities Act › § 15.2-5405.1. Applicability of personnel and procurement procedures to certain authorities

The provisions of the Virginia Personnel Act (§ 2.2-2900 et seq.) and the Virginia Public Procurement Act (§ 2.2-4300 et seq.) shall apply to an authority created by a governmental unit exempt from the referendum requirement of § 15.2-5403 in the exercise of any power conferred under this article only to the extent that such provisions would have applied to the sole member of such authority in the exercise of such power directly.
2006, cc. 929, 941.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 54 - Electric Authorities Act › § 15.2-5406.1. Retail distribution of electric energy limited to certain authorities

Notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter to the contrary, an authority is not authorized to distribute electric energy for retail sale unless the authority is an authority created by a governmental unit exempt from the referendum requirement of § 15.2-5403. Such distribution shall be limited to retail sales within the geographic area that was, as of January 1, 2006, by the governmental unit of such authority. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to impair or abridge the exclusive territorial electric distribution rights or property rights of any certificated incumbent public service company operating in the Commonwealth. No such authority is authorized or empowered to take by condemnation, eminent domain, or otherwise, the electric distribution system, utility facilities, or other utility property of any public service company without the consent of such public service company.
2006, cc. 929, 941.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 54 - Electric Authorities Act › § 15.2-5406.2. Tort claims against certain authorities

An authority created by a governmental unit exempt from the referendum requirement of § 15.2-5403 shall be subject to tort liability only to the extent that the governmental unit that is the sole member of such authority is subject to such liability.
2006, cc. 929, 941.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 54 - Electric Authorities Act › § 15.2-5407. Membership in more than one authority

Nothing herein contained shall prohibit any governmental unit from being a member of more than one authority for the purpose of obtaining an adequate electric power supply.
1979, c. 416, § 15.1-1610; 1997, c. 587.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 54 - Electric Authorities Act › § 15.2-5409. Sale of capacity and output to nonmembers; limitations

An authority may sell or exchange the capacity or output of a project not then required by any of its member governmental units for such consideration, for such period, and upon such other terms and conditions as may be determined by the parties, to any person, firm, association or corporation, public or private within or outside the Commonwealth; however, this shall not authorize retail sales by an authority to any nongovernmental end user of electric capacity or energy, except as set forth in § 15.2-5406.1, and sales of such capacity or output of a project shall not be made in such amounts, for such periods of time, and under such terms and conditions as will cause the interest on bonds issued to finance the cost of a project to become taxable by the federal government.
1979, c. 416, § 15.1-1612; 1997, c. 587; 2006, cc. 929, 941.
2023 Code of Virginia › Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns › Chapter 54 - Electric Authorities Act › § 15.2-5411. Contracts for planning, acquisition, construction, etc., of projects

An authority may contract for the planning, acquisition, construction, reconstruction, operation, maintenance, repair, extension, and improvement of a project or may contract with one or more units to perform these functions, by advertising for bids, preparing plans and specifications in advance of construction, or securing performances and payment bonds to the extent that its board of directors determines that these actions are desirable in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter. Except as otherwise provided by this section, no contract shall be invalid or unenforceable by reason of nonperformance of the conditions required by any other law relating to public contracts.
1979, c. 416, § 15.1-1614; 1997, c. 587.