Bill Text: VA SB947 | 2017 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Petition for appeal to Supreme Court; time period within which petition must be presented.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-03-20 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0652) [SB947 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2017-SB947-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §8.01-671 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§8.01-671. Time within which petition must be presented.
A. In cases where an appeal is permitted from the trial court
to the Supreme Court, no petition shall be presented for an appeal to the
Supreme Court from any final judgment whether the Commonwealth be a party or
not, (i) which shall have been rendered more than three months 90
days before the petition is presented, provided, that in criminal
cases, a thirty-day 30-day extension may be granted, in the
discretion of the court, in order to attain the ends of justice, or (ii) if it
be an appeal from a final decree refusing a bill of review to a decree rendered
more than four months 120 days prior thereto, unless the petition
is presented within three months 90 days from the date of such
decree.
B. When an appeal from an interlocutory decree or order is
permitted, the petition for appeal shall be presented within the appropriate
time limitation set forth in subsection A hereof.
C. No appeal to the Supreme Court from a decision of the Court
of Appeals shall be granted unless a petition for appeal is filed within
thirty 30 days after the date of the decision appealed from.
