                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PETITION AND HEARING; RECORDATION OF ORDER; COSTS (§ 15.2-3108)

Within a reasonable time after a voluntary boundary agreement is adopted by the
affected localities, each affected locality shall petition the circuit court for
one of the affected localities to approve the boundary agreement. The petition
shall set forth the facts pertaining to the desire to relocate or change the
boundary line between the localities, and the petition shall include or have
attached to it either (i) a plat depicting the change in the boundaries of the
localities as agreed; (ii) a metes and bounds description of the new boundary
line as agreed upon by the two localities; or (iii) a Geographic Information
System (GIS) map depicting the change in the boundaries of the localities as
agreed, having been established by Virginia State Plane Coordinates System,
South Zone or North Zone, as applicable, meeting National Geodetic Survey
standards. If the court finds that the procedures required by § 15.2-3107 have
been complied with and that the petition is otherwise in proper order, the court
shall enter an appropriate order establishing the new boundary. The order shall
include a plat depicting the change in the boundaries of the locality, a metes
and bounds description of the new boundary line of the locality, or a GIS map
depicting the change in the boundaries of the localities that includes the
Virginia State Plane, South Zone or North Zone coordinates, as applicable, and
that order shall be entered in the land records of the court and indexed in the
names of the localities which were involved. Costs shall be awarded as the court
may determine. Whenever such an order is entered, a certified copy of the order
shall be sent to the Secretary of the Commonwealth by the clerk of the court.

HISTORY: 1977, c. 277, § 15.1-1031.3; 1983, c. 594; 1993, c. 392; 1997, c. 587;
2013, c. 773; 2016, c. 153; 2018, cc. 85, 319; 2019, cc. 118, 385, 705.