Where an agency proposes to consider the exercise of authority to promulgate a regulation that will impose a statewide mandate on the Commonwealth's localities, the agency shall consider, where appropriate, implementing the regulation on a limited basis with a representative number of localities. An agency may use such a pilot program to determine the effectiveness or impact of proposed regulations prior to statewide adoption.
Va. Code Ann. § 2.2-4010
Pilot programs for regulations imposing local government mandates
Known as the Administrative Process Act
The act spans §§ 2–2 (50 sections).
1993, c. 168, § 9-6.14:8.1; 2001, c. 844.
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