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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80539</law_id><section_number>15.2-3221</section_number><catch_line>Appeals; how heard</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-3222</reference><reference>15.2-3528</reference><reference>15.2-3809</reference><reference>15.2-3909</reference><reference>15.2-4108</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="32">Boundary Changes of Towns and Cities</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Annexation</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>An <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> may be made to the <span class="dictionary">Court</span> of <span class="dictionary">Appeals</span>. The special <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall certify the <span class="dictionary">facts</span> in the case to the <span class="dictionary">Court</span> of <span class="dictionary">Appeals</span>, and the <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> shall be considered as on <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> in proceedings under Chapter 2 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Chapter controls condemnation proceedings" href="/25.1-200/">25.1-200</a> et seq.) of Title 25.1. If an <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> is taken from the <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Court</span> of <span class="dictionary">Appeals</span>, the Supreme <span class="dictionary">Court</span>, in matters in which it grants the <span class="dictionary">petition</span> for <span class="dictionary">appeal</span>, shall consider the <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> consistent with the procedures set forth herein and shall enter such <span class="dictionary">order</span> as the special <span class="dictionary">court</span> should have entered. In any case, by consent of all parties of record, the <span class="dictionary">motion</span> to annex may be dismissed at any time before final <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> on <span class="dictionary">appeal</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 15-152.19; 1952, c. 328; 1962, c. 623, &#xA7; 15.1-1049; 1997, c. 587; 2003, c. 940; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 489.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
