13100890D
SENATE BILL NO. 804
Offered January 9, 2013
Prefiled December 20, 2012
A BILL to amend and reenact §15.2-3108 of the Code of
Virginia, relating to voluntary boundary agreements.
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Patron-- Garrett
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Referred to Committee on Local Government
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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) a
Geographic Information System (GIS) map depicting the change in the boundaries
of the localities as agreed with a
general description of the new boundary line.
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 a GIS map depicting the change in the
boundaries of the localities with a general
description of the new boundary line, 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.
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