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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>78094</law_id><section_number>15.2-3605</section_number><catch_line>How appeals granted and heard</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="36">Incorporation of Towns by Judicial Proceeding</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>. <span class="dictionary">Court</span> costs shall be awarded as the <span class="dictionary">Court</span> of <span class="dictionary">Appeals</span> determines. The costs in the <span class="dictionary">Court</span> of <span class="dictionary">Appeals</span> shall be awarded to the <span class="dictionary">party</span> substantially prevailing. 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 render a decision and award the costs of the <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> to the <span class="dictionary">party</span> that substantially prevailed.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 15-71; 1962, c. 623, &#xA7; 15.1-971; 1979, c. 85; 1997, c. 587; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 489.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
