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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":[{"id":80539,"section_number":"15.2-3221","catch_line":"Appeals; how heard","order_by":null,"url":"\/15.2-3221\/"},{"id":66778,"section_number":"15.2-3222","catch_line":"What order to be entered by the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals","order_by":null,"url":"\/15.2-3222\/"}],"permalink":{"id":157737,"object_type":"law","relational_id":55978,"identifier":"15.2-3909","token":"15.2\/III\/39\/15.2-3909","url":"\/15.2-3909\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-3909\/","token":"15.2\/III\/39\/15.2-3909","dublin_core":{"Title":"Appeals","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-3909","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p><span class=\"dictionary\">Appeals<\/span> may be made to the <span class=\"dictionary\">Court<\/span> of <span class=\"dictionary\">Appeals<\/span> as provided in \u00a7\u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Appeals; how heard\" href=\"\/15.2-3221\/\">15.2-3221<\/a> and <a class=\"law\" title=\"What order to be entered by the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals\" href=\"\/15.2-3222\/\">15.2-3222<\/a>, which shall apply <span class=\"dictionary\">mutatis mutandis<\/span>. Any <span class=\"dictionary\">judgment<\/span> of the <span class=\"dictionary\">Court<\/span> of <span class=\"dictionary\">Appeals<\/span> rendered pursuant to this section may be appealed to the Supreme <span class=\"dictionary\">Court<\/span>, which, if it grants the <span class=\"dictionary\">petition<\/span> for <span class=\"dictionary\">appeal<\/span>, shall hear the <span class=\"dictionary\">appeal<\/span> as provided in \u00a7\u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Appeals; how heard\" href=\"\/15.2-3221\/\">15.2-3221<\/a> and <a class=\"law\" title=\"What order to be entered by the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals\" href=\"\/15.2-3222\/\">15.2-3222<\/a>, which shall apply <span class=\"dictionary\">mutatis mutandis<\/span>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nAPPEALS (\u00a7 15.2-3909)\n\nAppeals may be made to the Court of Appeals as provided in \u00a7\u00a7 15.2-3221 and\n15.2-3222, which shall apply mutatis mutandis. Any judgment of the Court of\nAppeals rendered pursuant to this section may be appealed to the Supreme Court,\nwhich, if it grants the petition for appeal, shall hear the appeal as provided\nin \u00a7\u00a7 15.2-3221 and 15.2-3222, which shall apply mutatis mutandis.\n\nHISTORY: 1979, c. 85, \u00a7 15.1-977.11; 1997, c. 587; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 489.","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}}