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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>78028</law_id><section_number>15.2-4311</section_number><catch_line>Review of districts</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-4314</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="IV">Other Governmental Entities</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="43">Agricultural and Forestal Districts Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The local <span class="dictionary">governing body</span> may complete a review of any <span class="dictionary">district</span> created under this section, together with additions to such <span class="dictionary">district</span>, no less than four years but no more than ten years after the date of its creation and every four to ten years thereafter. If the local <span class="dictionary">governing body</span> determines that a review is necessary, it shall begin such review at least ninety days before the expiration date of the period established when the <span class="dictionary">district</span> was created. In conducting such review, the local <span class="dictionary">governing body</span> shall ask for the recommendations of the local <span class="dictionary">advisory committee</span> and the planning commission in <span class="dictionary">order</span> to determine whether to terminate, modify or continue the <span class="dictionary">district</span>. When each <span class="dictionary">district</span> is reviewed, land within the <span class="dictionary">district</span> may be withdrawn at the owner&#x2019;s discretion by filing a written notice with the local <span class="dictionary">governing body</span> at any time before it acts to continue, modify or terminate the <span class="dictionary">district</span>. The local planning commission or the <span class="dictionary">advisory committee</span> shall schedule as part of the review a public meeting with the owners of land within the <span class="dictionary">district</span>, and shall send by first-class mail a written notice of the meeting and review to all such owners. The notice shall state the time and place for the meeting; that the <span class="dictionary">district</span> is being reviewed by the local <span class="dictionary">governing body</span>; that the local <span class="dictionary">governing body</span> may continue, modify, or terminate the <span class="dictionary">district</span>; and that land may be withdrawn from the <span class="dictionary">district</span> at the owner&#x2019;s discretion by filing a written notice with the local <span class="dictionary">governing body</span> at any time before it acts to continue, modify or terminate the <span class="dictionary">district</span>. The local <span class="dictionary">governing body</span> shall hold a public <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> as provided by <span class="dictionary">law</span>. The <span class="dictionary">governing body</span> may stipulate conditions to continuation of the <span class="dictionary">district</span> and may establish a period before the next review of the <span class="dictionary">district</span>, which may be different from the conditions or period established when the <span class="dictionary">district</span> was created. Any such different conditions or period shall be described in a notice sent by first-class mail to all owners of land within the <span class="dictionary">district</span> and published in a newspaper having a general circulation within the <span class="dictionary">district</span> no less than seven days prior to adoption of the <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span> continuing the <span class="dictionary">district</span>. Unless the <span class="dictionary">district</span> is modified or terminated by the local <span class="dictionary">governing body</span>, the <span class="dictionary">district</span> shall continue as originally constituted, with the same conditions and period before the next review as that established when the <span class="dictionary">district</span> was created.
		If the local <span class="dictionary">governing body</span> determines that a review is unnecessary, it shall set the year in which the next review shall occur.</p></section></text><history>1977, c. 681, &#xA7; 15.1-1511; 1979, c. 377; 1981, c. 546; 1984, c. 20; 1985, c. 13; 1987, c. 552; 1993, cc. 745, 761; 1997, c. 587; 2024, cc. 225, 242.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
