                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

NOTICE OF MOTION; SERVICE AND PUBLICATION; DOCKETING (§ 15.2-3703)

Upon adoption of the ordinance required by § 15.2-3702, the town shall serve
notice 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 or counties in
which the town is located that it will, on a given day, not less than thirty
days thereafter, move the circuit court for an order as provided by §
15.2-3702. A copy of the notice and ordinance, or a descriptive summary of the
notice and ordinance and a reference to the place within the town where copies
of the notice and ordinance may be examined, shall be published at least once a
week for four successive weeks in a newspaper having general circulation in the
town. 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. When the
publication of the notice and ordinance is completed, the case shall be docketed
for entry of the referendum order. Certification of the owner, editor or manager
of the newspaper publishing the notice and ordinance shall be proof of
publication.

HISTORY: 1992, c. 453, § 15.1-965.31; 1997, c. 587.