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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63691</law_id><section_number>15.2-4120</section_number><catch_line>Court granting transition to town status to exist for 10 years</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="41">Transition of City to Town Status</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The special <span class="dictionary">court</span> created pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Ordinance petitioning court for town status; notice of motion" href="/15.2-4101/">15.2-4101</a> shall not be dissolved after rendering a decision granting any <span class="dictionary">motion</span> or <span class="dictionary">petition</span> for transition to <span class="dictionary">town</span> status, but shall remain in existence for a period of 10 years from the effective date of any transition <span class="dictionary">order</span> entered, or from the date of any decision of the Supreme <span class="dictionary">Court</span> or the <span class="dictionary">Court</span> of <span class="dictionary">Appeals</span> affirming such an <span class="dictionary">order</span>. Vacancies occurring in the <span class="dictionary">court</span> during such 10-year period shall be filled by designation of another <span class="dictionary">judge</span> from the <span class="dictionary">panel</span> provided for in Chapter 30 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Special court to hear certain cases" href="/15.2-3000/">15.2-3000</a> et seq.) of this title. <a id="paragraph-231985" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-4120/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The <span class="dictionary">court</span> may be reconvened at any time during the 10-year period on its own <span class="dictionary">motion</span>, or on <span class="dictionary">motion</span> of the <span class="dictionary">governing body</span> of the <span class="dictionary">county</span>, or of the <span class="dictionary">town</span>, or on <span class="dictionary">petition</span> of not less than 15 percent of the registered <span class="dictionary">voters</span> of the <span class="dictionary">town</span>. <a id="paragraph-231986" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-4120/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> The <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall have power and it shall be its duty, at any time during such period, to enforce the performance of the terms and conditions under which <span class="dictionary">town</span> status was granted, and to <span class="dictionary">issue</span> appropriate process to compel such performance. The <span class="dictionary">court</span> may, in its discretion, award attorney fees, <span class="dictionary">court</span> and other reasonable costs to the <span class="dictionary">party</span> or parties on whose <span class="dictionary">motion</span> the <span class="dictionary">court</span> is reconvened. <a id="paragraph-231987" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-4120/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> Any such action of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall be subject to review by the Supreme <span class="dictionary">Court</span> and the <span class="dictionary">Court</span> of <span class="dictionary">Appeals</span> in the same manner as is provided with respect to the original decision of the <span class="dictionary">court</span>. <a id="paragraph-231988" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-4120/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1988, c. 881, &#xA7; 15.1-965.27; 1997, c. 587; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 489.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
