                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

(FOR CONTINGENT EFFECTIVE DATE, SEE ACTS 2025, CC. 91 AND 109, CL. 2) PLANE
COORDINATES USED IN SYSTEMS (§ 1-603)

The plane coordinates of a point on the earth&#8217;s surface, to be used in
expressing the position or location of such point in the appropriate zone of
these systems, shall be expressed in international feet and decimals of a foot.
One of these distances, to be known as the &#8220;x-coordinate,&#8221; shall
give the position in an east-and-west direction; the other, to be known as the
&#8220;y-coordinate,&#8221; shall give the position in a north-and-south
direction. These coordinates shall be made to depend upon and conform to the
coordinate values for the monumented points of the North American Horizontal
Geodetic Control Network as published by the National Ocean Service/National
Geodetic Survey, or its successors, and whose plane coordinates have been
computed on the systems defined in this chapter. Any such station may be used
for establishing a survey connection to either Virginia coordinate system.
		When converting coordinates in the Virginia Coordinate System of 1983 or the
Virginia Coordinate System of 2022 from meters and decimals of a meter to feet
and decimals of a foot, the International foot conversion factor (one foot
equals 0.3048 meters) shall be used. The plat or plan shall contain a statement
of the conversion factor used and the coordinate values of a minimum of two
project points in feet.

HISTORY: 1946, p. 167; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 2849(3); Code 1950, § 55-290;
1984, c. 726; 1992, c. 1; 2019, c. 712; 2025, cc. 91, 109.