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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 85 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1979 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1984, chapter 695; in 1997, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?971+ful+CHAP0587\">587<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":157241,"object_type":"law","relational_id":62228,"identifier":"15.2-3305","token":"15.2\/III\/33\/15.2-3305","url":"\/15.2-3305\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-3305\/","token":"15.2\/III\/33\/15.2-3305","dublin_core":{"Title":"Duration of immunity","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-3305","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>After a <span class=\"dictionary\">county<\/span> or tier-<span class=\"dictionary\">city<\/span> or part of a <span class=\"dictionary\">county<\/span> is once granted immunity as provided by this chapter, it shall thereafter retain it.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDURATION OF IMMUNITY (\u00a7 15.2-3305)\n\nAfter a county or tier-city or part of a county is once granted immunity as\nprovided by this chapter, it shall thereafter retain it.\n\nHISTORY: 1979, c. 85, \u00a7 15.1-977.22:2; 1984, c. 695; 1997, c. 587.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}