                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EFFECT ON JURISDICTION OF COURTS (§ 15.2-4119)

Upon the effective date of the transition from city to town status, all criminal
prosecutions then pending therein, whether by indictment, warrant or other
complaint, and all suits, actions, motions, warrants, and other proceedings of a
civil nature, with all the records of the courts of the city, shall stand ipso
facto removed to the courts of concurrent or like jurisdiction of the
appropriate county. The circuit and other courts having courthouses and records
in and jurisdiction over the city shall, at some convenient time, as closely
preceding the period of removal as practicable, by formal orders entered of
record, direct the removal of all such causes and proceedings, civil and
criminal, to the court or courts of concurrent or like jurisdiction of the
county. The clerk of the court or courts to which the causes and proceedings
have been removed shall thereupon proceed as in other cases of removal or
changes of venue and such matters shall be docketed and handled as though
initially filed in such court or courts. At the same time such clerk or clerks
shall also deliver to the proper clerk or clerks of the county all the deed
books, order or minute books, execution dockets, judgment dockets and other
records of his office, of whatever kind or nature. The clerk or clerks of the
court or courts to which the records are removed shall take charge of and
preserve the records for reference and use in the same manner and with the same
effect as though they were original records of his office.

HISTORY: 1988, c. 881, § 15.1-965.26; 1997, c. 587; 2005, c. 681.