<?xml version="1.0"?>
<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>61596</law_id><section_number>15.2-3828</section_number><catch_line>State, county and district taxes accruing before transition; county sales and use tax becomes city sales and use tax</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-2632</reference><reference>15.2-3829</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="38">Transition of Towns to Cities</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>All state, <span class="dictionary">county</span> and district taxes on property within the territory occupied by a <span class="dictionary">city</span> created under this chapter that accrued before the <span class="dictionary">city</span> became such shall be payable to and collected by the <span class="dictionary">county</span> treasurer. The proceeds of all <span class="dictionary">county</span> and district taxes on property within the <span class="dictionary">city</span> shall be held by the <span class="dictionary">county</span> treasurer subject to the rights of the <span class="dictionary">city</span> to be adjusted in the manner hereinafter provided.
		If a <span class="dictionary">town</span> becomes a <span class="dictionary">city</span> of the second class under this chapter, and a <span class="dictionary">county</span> sales and use tax was in force in the <span class="dictionary">county</span> in which such <span class="dictionary">town</span> was located at the time the <span class="dictionary">order</span> was entered pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Hearing and decision by court" href="/15.2-3807/">15.2-3807</a>, such local sales and use tax shall continue in effect in the <span class="dictionary">city</span> as a <span class="dictionary">city</span> sales and use tax on and after the effective date of such <span class="dictionary">order</span> the same as if the tax had been duly imposed by the <span class="dictionary">council</span> of the <span class="dictionary">city</span>. The preceding sentence shall apply until the effective date of a local sales and use tax <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span> adopted by the <span class="dictionary">city</span> <span class="dictionary">council</span> under the applicable provisions of <span class="dictionary">law</span>; but the preceding sentence shall not apply if the <span class="dictionary">council</span> of the <span class="dictionary">city</span>, immediately after the <span class="dictionary">town</span> becomes a <span class="dictionary">city</span>, adopts a resolution to the effect that such local sales and use tax shall not be effective in the <span class="dictionary">city</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 15-101; 1962, c. 623, &#xA7; 15.1-1002; 1968, c. 315; 1997, c. 587.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
