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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 1 time. 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. That modification is as follows: 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":157369,"object_type":"law","relational_id":56869,"identifier":"15.2-3524","token":"15.2\/III\/35\/2\/15.2-3524","url":"\/15.2-3524\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-3524\/","token":"15.2\/III\/35\/2\/15.2-3524","dublin_core":{"Title":"Time limit for intervenors","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-3524","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The <span class=\"dictionary\">court<\/span> shall by <span class=\"dictionary\">order<\/span> fix a time within which a <span class=\"dictionary\">voter<\/span>, property owner, other person or political subdivision not served may become a <span class=\"dictionary\">party<\/span> to proceedings instituted under this article for the creation of a consolidated <span class=\"dictionary\">city<\/span> and thereafter no such <span class=\"dictionary\">petition<\/span> shall be received, except for good cause shown. 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A\ncopy of the order shall be published at least once a week for two successive\nweeks in a newspaper or newspapers of general circulation in the localities\nproposing to consolidate and in the counties and cities contiguous thereto.\n\nHISTORY: 1979, c. 85, \u00a7 15.1-1130.5; 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}}