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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>57836</law_id><section_number>15.2-3108</section_number><catch_line>Petition and hearing; recordation of order; costs</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-3107</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="15.2">Counties, Cities and Towns</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Boundary Adjustments and Changes of Status of Counties, Cities and Towns</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="31">Settling Boundaries Between Localities</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Relocation or Change, by Agreement, of Boundary Line Between Localities; Adjustment by Court</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Within a reasonable time after a voluntary boundary agreement is adopted by the affected localities, each affected <span class="dictionary">locality</span> shall <span class="dictionary">petition</span> the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> for one of the affected localities to approve the boundary agreement. The <span class="dictionary">petition</span> shall set forth the <span class="dictionary">facts</span> pertaining to the desire to relocate or change the boundary line between the localities, and the <span class="dictionary">petition</span> shall include or have attached to it either (i) a plat depicting the change in the boundaries of the localities as agreed; (ii) a metes and bounds description of the new boundary line as agreed upon by the two localities; or (iii) a Geographic Information System (GIS) map depicting the change in the boundaries of the localities as agreed, having been established by Virginia State Plane Coordinates System, South Zone or North Zone, as applicable, meeting National Geodetic Survey standards. If the <span class="dictionary">court</span> finds that the procedures required by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Publication of agreed boundary line" href="/15.2-3107/">15.2-3107</a> have been complied with and that the <span class="dictionary">petition</span> is otherwise in proper <span class="dictionary">order</span>, the <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall enter an appropriate <span class="dictionary">order</span> establishing the new boundary. The <span class="dictionary">order</span> shall include a plat depicting the change in the boundaries of the <span class="dictionary">locality</span>, a metes and bounds description of the new boundary line of the <span class="dictionary">locality</span>, or a GIS map depicting the change in the boundaries of the localities that includes the Virginia State Plane, South Zone or North Zone coordinates, as applicable, and that <span class="dictionary">order</span> shall be entered in the land records of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> and indexed in the names of the localities which were involved. Costs shall be awarded as the <span class="dictionary">court</span> may determine. Whenever such an <span class="dictionary">order</span> is entered, a certified copy of the <span class="dictionary">order</span> shall be sent to the Secretary of the Commonwealth by the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">court</span>.</p></section></text><history>1977, c. 277, &#xA7; 15.1-1031.3; 1983, c. 594; 1993, c. 392; 1997, c. 587; 2013, c. 773; 2016, c. 153; 2018, cc. 85, 319; 2019, cc. 118, 385, 705.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
