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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?941+ful+CHAP0673\">673<\/a> 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. 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, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?971+ful+CHAP0797\">797<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?971+ful+CHAP0897\">897<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":178767,"object_type":"law","relational_id":75217,"identifier":"20-88.49","token":"20\/5.3\/5\/20-88.49","url":"\/20-88.49\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/20-88.49\/","token":"20\/5.3\/5\/20-88.49","dublin_core":{"Title":"Inappropriate tribunal","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 20-88.49","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>If a <span class=\"dictionary\">petition<\/span> or comparable pleading is received by an inappropriate <span class=\"dictionary\">tribunal<\/span> of this Commonwealth, it shall forward the pleading and accompanying documents to an appropriate <span class=\"dictionary\">tribunal<\/span> in this Commonwealth or another <span class=\"dictionary\">state<\/span>, and notify the petitioner where and when the pleading was sent.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nINAPPROPRIATE TRIBUNAL (\u00a7 20-88.49)\n\nIf a petition or comparable pleading is received by an inappropriate tribunal of\nthis Commonwealth, it shall forward the pleading and accompanying documents to\nan appropriate tribunal in this Commonwealth or another state, and notify the\npetitioner where and when the pleading was sent.\n\nHISTORY: 1994, c. 673; 1997, cc. 797, 897.","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}}