{"data":{"id":"us-va/va.-code-15.2-2413.6","jurisdiction":"us-va","citation":"Va. Code § 15.2-2413.6","heading":"Local ordinances related to tourism improvement districts","body":"A. Any locality establishing a tourism improvement district may enact ordinances on any of the following subjects that provide for:1. Activities and other additional services required for tourism promotion or events or for enhancement of the tourism improvement district;2. Activities in the tourism improvement district that will fund the promotion of tourism activities in the tourism improvement district, including acquiring, constructing, installing, or maintaining capital improvements;3. Operating and maintaining any tourism improvement district activity;4. The charging of fees on all benefited businesses within a tourism improvement district, which shall be charged on the basis of the estimated benefit to such businesses within the tourism improvement district;5. The classifying of businesses for purposes of determining the benefit to the businesses of the activities provided pursuant to this article;6. A process for the collection of revenues from fees from benefited businesses; and7. Forming a tourism improvement district in cooperation with, and that includes, other localities.B. After establishing a tourism improvement district, a locality shall not decrease the level of publicly funded tourism promotion services in a tourism improvement district existing prior to the creation of such tourism improvement district.2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 500.","path":["Title 15.2. Counties, Cities and Towns","Subtitle II. Powers of Local Government","Chapter 24. Service Districts; Taxes and Assessments for Local Improvements","Article 3. Tourism Improvement Districts"],"source_url":"https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/15.2-2413.6/","current_through":"9/4/2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:14:19Z","sha256":"23e058b15bb8c0547e736902758e5a5195b45e07c2cee9b406a36f21e5896980","source_id":"us-va","stale":true,"prev":"us-va/va.-code-15.2-2413.5","next":"us-va/va.-code-15.2-2413.7"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}