2010 Code of Virginia
Title 10.1 - CONSERVATION.
Chapter 6 - Flood Protection and Dam Safety (10.1-600 thru 10.1-659)
10.1-603.7 - Authorization for more stringent ordinances.
ยง 10.1-603.7. Authorization for more stringent ordinances.
A. Localities are authorized to adopt more stringent stormwater management ordinances than those necessary to ensure compliance with the Board's minimum regulations, provided that the more stringent ordinances are based upon factual findings of local or regional comprehensive watershed management studies or findings developed through the implementation of a MS4 permit or a locally adopted watershed management study and are determined by the locality to be necessary to prevent any further degradation to water resources or to address specific existing water pollution including nutrient and sediment loadings, stream channel erosion, depleted groundwater resources, or excessive localized flooding within the watershed and that prior to adopting more stringent ordinances a public hearing is held after giving due notice.
B. Any local stormwater management program in existence before January 1, 2005 that contains more stringent provisions than this article shall be exempt from the requirements of subsection A.
(1989, cc. 467, 499; 1991, c. 84; 2004, c. 372.)
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