Bill Text: VA HB1553 | 2015 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Local notifications; locality may by ordinance establish system to deliver to residents by email.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-03-16 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0192) [HB1553 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2015-HB1553-Chaptered.html

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CHAPTER 192 An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 15.2-925.1, relating to local notifications. [H 1553] Approved March 16, 2015

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 15.2-925.1 as follows:

§15.2-925.1. Local notifications.

Any locality may by ordinance establish a system to deliver notifications to residents by email, phone, text message or other similar means of communication. Such ordinance shall be adopted only after a public hearing and shall contain an opt-in provision for non-emergency notifications.

2. That a notification system adopted by a locality prior to the effective date of this act shall be deemed to have met the requirements of §15.2-925.1.