Code of Virginia - Title 15.2 Counties, Cities And Towns - Chapter 33 Immunity Of Counties Or Parts Of Counties From City-Initiated Annexation And City Incorporation

15.2-3300 Purposes of chapter
The purposes of this chapter are: (i) to provide complete immunity from annexation and incorporation of new cities for those counties or tier-cities which by ...
15.2-3301 Initiation of proceeding for declaration of immunity
The governing body of any county or tier-city may, by ordinance passed by a recorded affirmative vote of a majority of the members thereof, petition ...
15.2-3302 Criteria for total immunity; judicial determination
A. If, after receipt of a petition for immunity, the circuit court determines that the county or tier-city has a population at the time of ...
15.2-3303 Notice of determination by court; effect on other proceedings
The clerk of the circuit court shall give notice of the court's determination of a county's or tier-city's eligibility for immunity to any court in ...
15.2-3304 Immunity based upon provision of urban-type services
The governing body of any county which feels appropriate urban-type services are being provided, exclusive of those services which are provided by a city but ...
15.2-3305 Duration of immunity
After a county or tier-city or part of a county is once granted immunity as provided by this chapter, it shall thereafter retain it. (1979, ...
15.2-3306 Limitations to immunity
A. Immunity granted by this chapter shall not be interpreted to prohibit any town annexations, or to prohibit annexations to a city initiated under the ...
15.2-3307 Election of city barred from annexation to be treated as immune county
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any city that is barred or that may hereafter become barred from further annexation may, by resolution passed by ...
15.2-3308 Partial immunity proceedings final for five years; exceptions
No county, having instituted proceedings for immunity for part or parts of the county, shall again seek immunity for substantially the same part or parts ...

Last modified: April 2, 2009