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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 453 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 1992 \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":157537,"object_type":"law","relational_id":62504,"identifier":"15.2-3708","token":"15.2\/III\/37\/15.2-3708","url":"\/15.2-3708\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-3708\/","token":"15.2\/III\/37\/15.2-3708","dublin_core":{"Title":"Transfer of property and indebtedness","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-3708","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Upon the effective date of <span class=\"dictionary\">annulment<\/span>, the title to all property, real and personal, tangible and intangible, of the former <span class=\"dictionary\">town<\/span> shall be vested in, and the indebtedness become a debt of, the <span class=\"dictionary\">county<\/span> or counties in which the <span class=\"dictionary\">town<\/span> was located without any further act or deed.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nTRANSFER OF PROPERTY AND INDEBTEDNESS (\u00a7 15.2-3708)\n\nUpon the effective date of annulment, the title to all property, real and\npersonal, tangible and intangible, of the former town shall be vested in, and\nthe indebtedness become a debt of, the county or counties in which the town was\nlocated without any further act or deed.\n\nHISTORY: 1992, c. 453, \u00a7 15.1-965.37; 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}}