CHAPTER 287

An Act to amend and reenact § 144 (c), as amended, of Chapter 34 of the
Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved February 7, 1918, which chapter
provided a charter and special form of government for the City of
Norfolk and which section relates to the powers and duties of the Nor-
folk Port and Industrial Authority.

[S 162]
Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 144 (c), as amended, of chapter 34 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1918, approved February 7, 1918, which chapter provided a charter and
special form of government for the City of Norfolk, be and the same is
hereby amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:

§ 144(c). Powers and duties.

Such authority shall have the following powers:

(a) To adopt and use a corporate seal, and to alter the same at its
pleasure.

(b) To acquire, hold and dispose of such personal property as may
be necessary for its purpose.

(c) To acquire by purchase or lease, on such terms and conditions,
and in such manner as it may deem proper, except by condemnation, or
by gift, such real property or such rights, easements or estates therein,
as may be necessary for its purposes, and to sell, lease and dispose of the
same, or any portion thereof or interest therein, whenever it shall become
expedient to do so.

(d) To acquire, lease, construct or maintain and operate, landings,
wharves, docks and piers, commodity elevators, and the approaches to
and appurtenances thereof, tracks, spurs, crossings, switchings, terminals,
warehouses and terminal facilities of every kind and description necessary
or useful in the transportation and storage of goods, wares and merchan-
dise, to perform any and all services at said facilities in connection with
the receipt, delivery, shipment and transfer in transit, weighing, marking,
tagging, ventilating, fumigating, refrigerating, icing, storing and handling
of goods, wares and merchandise, to prescribe and collect charges from
vessels coming into or using any landings, wharves, docks, piers, and com-
modity elevators operated and maintained by said authority and from
persons using any of the other facilities of the authority, and to lease any
and all of such facilities or any concessions properly incident thereto to
any person, firm or corporation for the maintenance and operation of any
and all of such facilities on such terms and conditions as it may deem
proper.

(e) To acquire, purchase, construct, lease, operate, maintain and
undertake, when and as authorized by the council of the City of Norfolk
by formal ordinance, any wholesale market facility for merchants, dealers
and farmers engaged in the marketing of perishable farm produce, fruits,
vegetables, poultry, eggs, horticultural products, dairy products, meats,
sea food, dry groceries, frozen foods and in the operation of freezing and
prepackaging plants and in the furnishing of baskets and containers for
farm produce and other articles handled at said market, to make charges
for the use thereof with such facility being classed as a public utility
within the meaning of this act.

(f) To acquire, purchase, construct, lease, operate, maintain and
undertake any passenger bus, railroad passenger or airline passenger
terminal facility and to make charges for the use thereof.

Before the powers set forth in this paragraph are exercised by the
authority prior approval of the council shall be first obtained.

(zg) To acquire, for the purpose of encouraging major industry and
manufacturing, real property and to construct thereon any structures,
including all equipment, appurtenances and accessories necessary or ap-
propriate for such uses and purposes, and to sell or lease the same, or any
part thereof, for industrial or manufacturing uses and purposes. The
authority granted in this paragraph shall not be exercised in any case
where the aggregate cost of land and structures for any single project
is less than * $150,000.00.

(h) To maintain and operate any airport and air navigational facili-
ties now or hereafter owned by the City of Norfolk with the same powers
and authority thereover in the operation and maintenance thereof that
said city may have, subject, however, to the provisions of section 144(d).

(1) To make capital improvements on any airport and air naviga-
tional facility now or hereafter owned by the City of Norfolk and trans-
ferred to said authority to operate and maintain, with the same powers
to issue its bonds therefor as it has for its other purposes, subject to the
approval of the council of the City of Norfolk.

(j) To foster and stimulate the commerce of the Port of Norfolk
and the shipment of freight through such port and to investigate and
handle matters pertaining to all transportation rate structures affecting
the commerce of the port.

(k) To establish, acquire, lease, maintain and operate, within the
corporate limits of the city, a public transportation system, when and as
authorized by the council of the City of Norfolk. |

To extend the operation and maintenance of such transportation
system in territory adjoining the City of Norfolk when and as authorized
so to do by the governing body of the political subdivision in which extended
and as otherwise provided by law.

(1) To establish, acquire, lease, maintain and operate such other public
utilities as may be required of said port authority by the council of the
City of Norfolk and as may be otherwise authorized by law.

(m) To acquire any or all places which are used or are to be used for
the parking or storage of vehicles by the public and which, upon the effec-
tive date of this act, are owned by the City of Norfolk or the Norfolk
Redevelopment and Housing Authority or, whether or not so owned, are
situated within the boundaries of the redevelopment projects of the Nor-
folk Redevelopment and Housing Authority known as Downtown Re-
development Project North, VA-R-8, Downtown Redevelopment Project
South, VA-R-9, and Atlantic City Redevelopment Project, VA-R-1, and to
acquire places for the parking or storage of vehicles by the public which
are situated south of Water Street, in the City of Norfolk, irrespective
of ownership; to operate and maintain such places; to authorize or permit
others to use, operate or maintain such places upon such terms and con-
ditions as it may prescribe; to charge or authorize the charging of com-
pensation for the parking or storage of vehicles at or in such places; and
to accept from others donations of money or other property, or the right
to use such property, to aid, in whole or in part, in the acquisition, main-
tenance and operation of such places. Before the powers set forth in this
paragraph are exercised by the authority prior approval of the council
shall be first obtained.

The power of the authority to operate facilities for the parking or
storage of vehicles by the public is limited to the places acquired under
this paragraph.

(n) To fix and charge tolls, fees and other charges for the use of,
or for services rendered by, any of the facilities it is authorized hereunder
to maintain and operate.

(o) To appoint and employ such officers, agents and employees as
may be necessary to carry out the purposes of said authority, to fix their
compensation and to prescribe their duties.

(p) To do all other acts and things which may be reasonably neces-
sary and convenient to carry out the purposes and powers given herein.

The powers conferred upon the authority by this section except the
powers conferred by clauses (h), (i), (j), and (k) of this section shall be
2xercised solely within the corporate limits of the City of Norfolk; pro-
vided further that rentals and charges for any and all facilities constructed
and/or operated pursuant to clauses (f) and (g) shall, as near as possible,
pe at commercial rates for like facilities or services, and include a sum
squivalent to real estate taxes at current rates on such property.
Whenever in this act approval of the council of the City of Norfolk
is required to enable the Norfolk Port and Industrial Authority to exercise
any power herein granted it, such approval shall be only by a formal
ordinance.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.