                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

GENERAL EFFECT OF CONSOLIDATION (§ 15.2-3510)

Upon the first day of office following the first election of county, city or
town officers for the consolidated localities, the several localities shall be
thereafter for all purposes treated and considered as one county, city or town,
as the case may be, under the name and upon the terms and conditions set forth
in the consolidation agreement and in accordance with the provisions of this
article. All the rights, privileges and franchises of each of the several
localities and all property, real and personal, and all debts due on whatever
account, as well as other things in action, belonging to each of such localities
shall be deemed as transferred to and vested in the consolidated locality
without further act or deed. All property, all rights-of-way and all other
interests shall be as effectually the property of the consolidated locality as
they were of the several localities prior to their consolidation. The title to
real estate, either by deed or otherwise, under the laws of this Commonwealth
vested in any of the localities shall not be deemed to revert or be in any way
impaired by reason of the consolidation. The rights of creditors and all liens
upon the property of any of the localities shall be preserved unimpaired; the
respective localities shall be deemed to continue in existence to preserve such
rights and liens, and all debts, liabilities and duties of any of the localities
shall thenceforth attach to the consolidated locality and be enforced against it
to the same extent as if such debts, liabilities and duties had been incurred or
contracted by it.
		Such consolidated locality shall in all respects, except as otherwise provided
herein, be subject to all the obligations and liabilities imposed and shall
possess all the rights, powers, and privileges vested by law in other
localities.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 15-170; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-1079; 1997, c. 587.