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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>64686</law_id><section_number>15.2-3244</section_number><catch_line>Appeal from such order</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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="3">Contraction of Corporate Limits</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any one or more of the petitioners, or the <span class="dictionary">defendants</span>, or any inhabitants of the <span class="dictionary">town</span>, who may feel themselves aggrieved by an <span class="dictionary">order</span> declaring territory to be abandoned as provided by this article, or by the refusal to enter such <span class="dictionary">order</span>, may, at any time within 60 days from the date of the <span class="dictionary">order</span>, upon giving <span class="dictionary">bond</span> for costs, the amount thereof to be fixed by the <span class="dictionary">court</span>, <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> to the <span class="dictionary">Court</span> of <span class="dictionary">Appeals</span> according to the general <span class="dictionary">law</span>. Any one or more of the petitioners, or the <span class="dictionary">defendants</span>, or any inhabitants of the <span class="dictionary">town</span>, who may feel themselves aggrieved by any decision of the <span class="dictionary">Court</span> of <span class="dictionary">Appeals</span> rendered pursuant to this section, may, at any time within 30 days from the date of the <span class="dictionary">order</span>, upon giving <span class="dictionary">bond</span> for costs, the amount thereof to be fixed by the <span class="dictionary">court</span>, apply to the Supreme <span class="dictionary">Court</span> for a <span class="dictionary">writ</span> of error and supersedeas according to the general <span class="dictionary">law</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 15-161; 1962, c. 623, &#xA7; 15.1-1067; 1997, c. 587; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 489.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
