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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>75899</law_id><section_number>58.1-3007</section_number><catch_line>Notice prior to increase of local tax levy; hearing</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>58.1-3221.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="58.1">Taxation</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Local Taxes</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="30">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Before any local tax <span class="dictionary">levy</span> shall be increased in any county, city, town, or district, such proposed increase shall be published in a newspaper having general circulation in the locality affected at least seven days before the increased <span class="dictionary">levy</span> is made and the citizens of the locality shall be given an opportunity to appear before, and be heard by, the local governing body on the subject of such increase.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 58-846.1, 58-851; 1954, c. 465; 1959, Ex. Sess., c. 52; 1966, c. 231; 1970, c. 325; 1975, cc. 47, 48, 541; 1976, c. 567; 1979, c. 576; 1981, c. 143; 1984, c. 675.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
