Code of Virginia - Title 15.2 Counties, Cities And Towns - Chapter 32 Boundary Changes Of Towns And Cities

15.2-3200 Boundaries of cities and towns to remain as established until changed
The boundaries of the cities and towns of this Commonwealth shall be and remain as now established unless changed as provided in this title. (Code ...

15.2-3201 Temporary restrictions on granting of city charters, filing annexation notices, institutions of ann...
Beginning January 1, 1987, and terminating on the first to occur of (i) July 1, 2010, or (ii) the July 1 next following the expiration ...

15.2-3202 Ordinance for annexation by city or town; appointment of special court
The council of any city or town may by an ordinance passed by a recorded affirmative vote of a majority of all the members elected ...

15.2-3203 Petition by voters of adjacent territory, or governing body of adjacent county or town, for annexat...
A. Whenever fifty-one percent of the voters of any territory adjacent to any city or town or fifty-one percent of the owners of real estate ...

15.2-3204 Notice of motion; service and publication
At least thirty days before instituting any annexation proceeding under this chapter, a city or town shall serve notice and a certified copy of the ...

15.2-3205 Additional parties
A. In any proceedings hereunder any qualified voters or property owners in the territory proposed to be annexed or any adjoining city or town may, ...

15.2-3206 Conflicting petitions for same territory; petition seeking territory lying in two or more counties...
A. When proceedings for the annexation of territory to a city or town are pending and a petition is filed seeking the annexation of the ...

15.2-3207 Pretrial conference; matters considered
The special court shall, prior to hearing any case under this chapter, direct the attorneys for the parties to appear before it, or in its ...

15.2-3208 Assistance of state agencies
The special court may, in its discretion, direct any appropriate state agency, in addition to the Commission on Local Government, to gather and present evidence, ...

15.2-3209 Hearing and decision
The special court shall hear the case upon the evidence introduced as evidence is introduced in civil cases. The court shall determine the necessity for ...

15.2-3210 Boundary line where territory fronts on river, bay, etc
A. In any proceeding under the provisions of this chapter to annex territory, when such territory fronts on a river or creek, the petition may ...

15.2-3211 Powers of court and rules of decision; terms and conditions
The special court, in making its decision, shall balance the equities in the case, shall enter an order setting forth what it deems fair and ...

15.2-3212 Determination of value of public improvements
In determining the value of any public improvement for the purposes set forth in § 15.2-3211 the special court shall take into consideration the original ...

15.2-3213 Declining to accept annexation on terms and conditions imposed by court
In any annexation proceedings instituted by a city or town, the council thereof may, subject to the approval of the special court in which the ...

15.2-3214 Costs
The costs in annexation proceedings shall be paid by the locality instituting the proceedings and shall be the same as in other civil cases; however, ...

15.2-3215 County reimbursement for town annexation proceedings
In any annexation proceedings in which a town participates, except those in which a town declines to accept an award by the special court, in ...

15.2-3216 Proceedings not to fail for technical or procedural defects or errors
No proceedings brought under this chapter shall fail because of a defect, imperfection or omission in the annexation ordinance or the pleadings which does not ...

15.2-3217 Court granting annexation to exist for ten years
The special court shall not be dissolved after rendering a decision granting any motion or petition for annexation, but shall remain in existence for a ...

15.2-3218 Continued existence of court under certain conditions
Notwithstanding the provisions of § 15.2-3217, if a decision granting any motion or petition for annexation is subjected to collateral attack in any court, state ...

15.2-3219 Reduced taxation on real estate in territory added to corporate limits
The council of any city or town to which territory has been added may, by ordinance, allow a lower rate of taxation to be imposed ...

15.2-3220 Mandamus and prohibition
Mandamus and prohibition shall lie from the Supreme Court or any circuit court to compel a city or town to carry out the provisions of ...

15.2-3221 Appeals; how heard
An appeal may be granted by the Supreme Court, or any justice thereof. The special court shall certify the facts in the case to the ...

15.2-3222 What order to be entered by Supreme Court
If the judgment of the special court is reversed on appeal, or if the judgment is modified, the Supreme Court shall enter such order as ...

15.2-3223 What order and proceedings clerk to certify, and where same shall be recorded; fees
The clerk of the court wherein an order is entered for the annexation of territory shall make and certify copies of so much of the ...

15.2-3224 Commissioner of revenue for the county to certify list of real estate in annexed territory to commi...
The commissioner of the revenue of such county shall forthwith make from the land books and certify to the commissioner of the revenue of the ...

15.2-3225 County or district officers resident in annexed territory to remain in office; reelection
If a county or district officer resides in a territory annexed to a city, such officer may continue in office until the end of the ...

15.2-3226 Redistricting and elections in city or town following annexation; registration and transfer of regi...
A. Whenever the boundaries of a city or town, which elects its council by wards or districts, have been expanded through annexation, subject to the ...

15.2-3227 Annexation proceedings final for ten years
Except by mutual agreement of the governing bodies affected, no city or town, having instituted proceedings to annex territory of a county, shall again seek ...

15.2-3228 County not to be reduced to insufficient area, population or sources of revenue
If, as the result of an annexation, the area remaining in a county (i) would be reduced below sixty square miles, excluding property owned by ...

15.2-3229 Annexation of whole town
The provisions of this article shall apply to the annexation by a city or town of an adjoining town. No part of a town shall ...

15.2-3230 Article not applicable to consolidation of two cities
The provisions of this article shall not apply to the consolidation of two cities. (Code 1950, § 15-152.28; 1952, c. 328; 1962, c. 623, § ...

15.2-3231 Agreements between towns and counties authorized; effect; provisions
Towns in counties, or parts of counties, not immune from annexation may voluntarily enter into agreements with such counties for the purpose of defining the ...

15.2-3232 Hearing before Commission on Local Government required; notice
A. Once the town and county governing bodies have decided upon the terms of an agreement pursuant to § 15.2-3231, the proposed agreement shall be ...

15.2-3233 Adoption of agreement
After the Commission has advised the governing bodies of the two jurisdictions of its determination, and regardless of whether its determination is favorable, such bodies ...

15.2-3234 Inability to agree; petition to Commission on Local Government
In the event the governing bodies of the town and county cannot reach a voluntary agreement as to future annexation rights, the town may, by ...

15.2-3235 Appeal
Any order of the Commission regarding future annexation rights of a town shall become final unless either the town or the county or five percent ...

15.2-3236 Council may enact ordinance
Whenever it is deemed desirable to contract the corporate limits of any city or town, the council thereof may enact an ordinance defining accurately the ...

15.2-3237 Application to be made to circuit court; appointment of special court; who may appear agains...
Within thirty days of the enactment of an ordinance proposing to reduce the corporate limits of a city or town, the city or town shall ...

15.2-3238 What court may do
If the special court is satisfied that: (i) such contraction of the corporate limits will not leave the bonded debt of the city or town ...

15.2-3239 Certification of real estate list
Upon entry of the order under § 15.2-3238, the proper city officers shall certify to the clerk of the county a list of all real ...

15.2-3240 Transfer of registration records
Upon entry of the court order under § 15.2-3238, the registration records of voters residing within the territory shall be transferred, and the appropriate notice ...

15.2-3241 Petition for contraction of towns located in two or more counties; appointment of special cour...
Whenever it is deemed desirable to contract the corporate limits of a town located partially in one county and partially in another, a majority of ...

15.2-3242 Parties defendant and publication of such petition
The county in which the part of the town proposed to be abandoned under § 15.2-3241 is located shall be named as defendant to the ...

15.2-3243 Hearing and order upon such petition
The special court shall fix a day on which the petition filed pursuant to § 15.2-3241 shall be heard and shall direct the clerk of ...

15.2-3244 Appeal from such order
Any one or more of the petitioners, or the defendants, or any inhabitants of the town, who may feel themselves aggrieved by an order declaring ...

15.2-3245 Description unavailable
Not set out. (1960, c. 420, § 15.1-1067.1; 1997, c. 587.) ...