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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>357228</law_id><section_number>3.2-104</section_number><catch_line>Commissioner may serve on board of national tobacco trust entity</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="5" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">General Provisions; Protection and Promotion of Agriculture</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Department and Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> may serve in his official capacity on the <span class="dictionary">board</span> of directors of any entity established to ensure the implementation in the Commonwealth of a national tobacco trust established to provide payments to tobacco growers and tobacco quota owners to ameliorate adverse economic consequences resulting from a national <span class="dictionary">settlement</span> of states&#x2019; claims against tobacco manufacturers.</p></section></text><history>2000, c. 1048, &#xA7; 3.1-14.1; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
