                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LIABILITIES (§ 15.2-3511)

All valid and lawful charges and liabilities existing against a consolidated
locality, or which may thereafter arise or accrue against such locality, which,
but for such consolidation would be valid, and lawful charges or liabilities
against them, or either of them, shall be deemed and taken to be like charges
against or liabilities of the consolidated locality and shall accordingly be
defrayed and answered to by it to the same extent, and no further than, the
several localities would have been bound if no consolidation had taken place.
All bonds, contracts and obligations of the localities which exist as legal
obligations shall be deemed like obligations of the consolidated locality, and
all such obligations as are authorized or required to be issued or entered into
shall be issued or entered into by and in the name of such consolidated
jurisdictions.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 15-213; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-1123; 1997, c. 587.