Bill Text: VA SB804 | 2013 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Voluntary boundary agreement between localities; attachment of GIS map to petitions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-04-03 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0773) [SB804 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2013-SB804-Chaptered.html

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CHAPTER 773 An Act to amend and reenact §15.2-3108 of the Code of Virginia, relating to voluntary boundary agreements. [S 804] Approved April 3, 2013

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §15.2-3108 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§15.2-3108. Petition and hearing; recordation of order; costs.

Within a reasonable time after a voluntary boundary agreement is adopted by the affected localities, each affected locality shall petition the circuit court for one of the affected localities to approve the boundary agreement. The petition shall set forth the facts pertaining to the desire to relocate or change the boundary line between the localities, and the petition shall include or have attached to it either (i) a plat depicting the change in the boundaries of the localities as agreed or; (ii) a metes and bounds description of the new boundary line as agreed upon by the two localities; or (iii) regarding the boundary between the Counties of Louisa and Goochland, a Geographic Information System (GIS) map depicting the change in the boundaries of the localities as agreed, having been established by Virginia State Plane Coordinates, South Zone, meeting National Geodetic Survey standards. If the court finds that the procedures required by §15.2-3107 have been complied with and that the petition is otherwise in proper order, the court shall enter an appropriate order establishing the new boundary. The order shall include a plat depicting the change in the boundaries of the locality or, a metes and bounds description of the new boundary line of the locality, or, regarding the boundary between the Counties of Louisa and Goochland, a GIS map depicting the change in the boundaries of the localities that includes the Virginia State Plane, South Zone coordinates, and that order shall be entered in the land records of the court and indexed in the names of the localities which were involved. Costs shall be awarded as the court may determine. Whenever such an order is entered, a certified copy of the order shall be sent to the Secretary of the Commonwealth by the clerk of the court.