                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

NOTICE OF MOTION; SERVICE AND PUBLICATION (§ 15.2-3204)

At least thirty days before instituting any annexation proceeding under this
chapter, a city or town shall serve notice and a certified copy of the ordinance
on the attorney for the Commonwealth, or on the county attorney, if there is
one, and on the chairman of the governing body of the county wherein such
territory lies that it will, on a given day, petition the circuit court to grant
the annexation requested in the ordinance. A copy of the notice and ordinance,
or a descriptive summary of the notice and ordinance and a reference to the
place within the city or town where copies of the notice and ordinance may be
examined, shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks in
some newspaper published in such city or town, and when there is no newspaper
published therein, then in a newspaper having general circulation in the county
whose territory is affected. The proof of service or certificate of service of
the notice and ordinance shall be returned after service to the clerk of the
circuit court. Certification from the owner, editor or manager of the newspaper
publishing the notice and ordinance or descriptive summary shall be proof of
publication.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 15-152.5; 1952, c. 328; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-1035; 1979,
c. 85; 1997, c. 587.