2016 Code of Virginia
Title 30 - General Assembly
Chapter 36 - Chesapeake Bay Commission
§ 30-247. Purposes

VA Code § 30-247 (2016) What's This?

The purposes of the signatories in enacting this Agreement are to assist the legislatures of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania in evaluating and responding to problems of mutual concern relating to the Chesapeake Bay; to promote intergovernmental cooperation; to encourage cooperative coordinated resource planning and action by the signatories and their agencies; to provide, where appropriate, through recommendation to the respective legislature, uniformity of legislative application; to preserve and enhance the functions, powers and duties of existing offices and agencies of government; and to recommend improvements in the existing management system for the benefit of the present and future inhabitants of the Chesapeake Bay region.

1980, c. 662, ยง 62.1-69.11; 1985, c. 149; 2004, c. 1000.

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