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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 360 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1986 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1988, chapter 891.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1373583,"object_type":"law","relational_id":345791,"identifier":"10.1-1608","token":"10.1\/II\/16\/10.1-1608","url":"\/10.1-1608\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/10.1-1608\/","token":"10.1\/II\/16\/10.1-1608","dublin_core":{"Title":"Faith and credit of Commonwealth or political subdivision not pledged","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 10.1-1608","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>No obligation of the <span class=\"dictionary\">Authority<\/span> shall constitute a debt, or pledge of the faith and credit, of the Commonwealth or of any political subdivision, but shall be payable solely from the revenue and other funds of the <span class=\"dictionary\">Authority<\/span> which have been pledged. 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All such obligations shall contain on the face a statement to the\neffect that the Commonwealth, political subdivisions, and the Authority shall\nnot be obligated to pay the obligation or the interest except from revenues and\nother funds of the Authority which have been pledged, and that neither the faith\nand credit nor the taxing power of the Commonwealth or of any political\nsubdivision is pledged to the payment of the principal of or the interest on\nsuch obligations.\n\nHISTORY: 1986, c. 360, \u00a7 10-158.6; 1988, c. 891.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}