                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROPOSED CONSOLIDATED CITY; NOTICE OF MOTION; SERVICE AND PUBLICATION (§
15.2-3521)

At least thirty days before instituting a proceeding under the provisions of
this article for the creation of a consolidated city, the counties and cities
proposing to consolidate shall serve notice on the attorney for the Commonwealth
or the attorney for the city or county, and on the chairman of the governing
body or mayor of each county and city having a common boundary that they will,
on a given day, petition the circuit court for a determination of whether the
proposed consolidated city is eligible for city status. The notice served on
each official shall include a certified copy of the consolidation agreement. A
copy of the notice and the consolidation agreement, or a descriptive summary of
the notice and agreement and a reference to the place within the city or town
where copies of the notice and agreement may be examined, shall be published at
least once a week for four successive weeks in some newspaper or newspapers
having general circulation in the localities which are parties to the agreement.
The notice and consolidation agreement shall be returned after service to the
clerk of the circuit court. Certification of the owner, editor or manager of the
newspaper publishing the notice and agreement shall be proof of publication.

HISTORY: 1979, c. 85, § 15.1-1130.2; 1986, c. 312; 1997, c. 587.