2026 SESSION
ENROLLED
VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY -- CHAPTER
An Act to amend and reenact § 10.1-1119.3 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Office of Working Lands Preservation; powers and duties; small renewable energy projects fees.
[H 1081]
Approved
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 10.1-1119.3 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 10.1-1119.3 . Powers and duties of the Office; Virginia Farmland and Forestland Preservation Fund.
A. The Office shall have the following powers and duties:
1. To develop, in cooperation with the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity, the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation, the American Farmland Trust, the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation, the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, the Virginia Association of Counties, and the Virginia Cooperative Extension, (i) model policies and practices that may be used as a guide to establish local purchase of development rights programs; (ii) criteria for the certification of local purchase of development rights programs as eligible to receive grants, loans, or other funds from public sources; and (iii) methods and sources of revenue for allocating funds to localities to purchase agricultural and forestal conservation easements;