CHAPTER 328

An Act to amend and reenact § 2-57.01 of the Code of Virginia relating
to the Division of Industrial Development and Planning established
in the Governor’s Office, so as to further prescribe its duties and

powers.
[S 253]
Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: |
a That § 2-57.01 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as

ollows:

§ 2-57.01.—The Division of Industrial Development and Planning,
hereinafter referred to as Division, shall be under the supervision and di-
rection of the Governor. The Governor shall appoint an executive assistant
as Director of the Division * who shall hold his position at the pleasure of
the Governor, and who shall be paid such compensation as the Governor
may fix. The Governor shall also appoint an Advisory Board consisting
of eleven members. The executive assistant serving as Director shall be
an ex officio member of the Board. The members of the Advisory Board
shall be appointed initially as follows: Three members for terms of two
years, four members for terms of three years and four members for terms
of four years, and thereafter all members shall be appointed for terms
of four years. The appointments to membership on the Advisory Board
shall be subject to confirmation by the General Assembly, if in session,
and, if not, then at the succeeding session. Vacancies on the Advisory
Board shall be filled for the unexpired term, subject to confirmation as
original appointees.

The members of the Advisory Board shall receive no salaries but
shall be paid their necessary travelling and other expenses incurred in
attendance upon meetings, or while otherwise engaged in the discharge of
their duties.

The Division *, under the supervision and direction of the Governor,
is charged with the responsibilities for carrying out all phases of the
State’s program in the field of industrial development including specific-
ally the duty to (a) see that there is prepared and carried out an effective
industrial advertising and promotional program and respond to inquiries
resulting from the advertising program for new industries and received
from other sources; (b) make available, in conjunction and cooperation
with localities, chambers of commerce, and other private or public groups,
to prospective new industries basic information regarding industrial sites,
natural resources and labor supply, and other pertinent factors of interest
and concern to such industries; * (c) encourage and foster the development
of the planning process at the local, regional, and state levels; (d) ad-
minister and perform a program of comprehensive planning, research
and other activities related thereto, for the State, its metropolitan or other
urban areas, regions, and local jurisdictions, including the disbursement
of regional planning funds; (e) provide planning assistance, upon request,
to any county or municipality, or any group of adjacent communities, in-
corporated or unincorporated, having common or related planning or de-
velopment problems, or any metropolitan or regional planning agency;
(f) maintain an account of the planning work already accomplished in
Virginia including the status of local, regional, and state planning activity
and, upon request of the Governor, prepare recommendations regarding
plans and projects; (g) formulate, promulgate and advance programs
throughout the State for the purpose of encouraging the location of new
industries in the State and the expansion of existing industries; in general,
to encourage, stimulate and support the industrial development and the
expansion of the economy of the Commonwealth.

The Division is authorized to apply for and accept and utilize grants
and other assistance from any governmental agency or department, and
from any public or private foundation, fund or trust, to contract with such
governmental agency or department and any other public or private sources,
to receive advances or progress payments, to enter into interstate com-
pacts with respect to comprehensive planning for an area extending into
an adjoining state or states where such compacts have been authorized
by law by such state or states but no such compact shall be effective in this
State and no obligation shall arise thereunder until such compact is
ratified by the General Assembly of Virginia, to contract with other plan-
ning agencies, public agencies and political subdivisions, and to exercise all
other powers necessary to carry out the purposes of this section; provided,
however, that no compact which relates to the powers and duties of the
State Water Control Board and the functions of the Water Control Board
over the State water reserved by Chapter 2 of Title 62 shall supersede or
affect such chapter and the powers, duties and functions of such Board
without its prior approval in writing being first obtained, and then only to
the extent stated in such approval.

The Governor shall have control of the expenditure of any funds
appropriated for the industrial advertising and promotional program ad-
ministered under the provisions of this section.

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