                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHERE PROCESS RETURNABLE AND TRIALS HELD IN CERTAIN CASES (§ 16.1-69.36)

All process, civil and criminal, returnable before a district court of a county
shall, if the defendants or any of them reside in a city or town in which the
court is held, be made returnable at the courtroom or place the court is held in
such city or town, but if none of the defendants reside therein it shall be made
returnable to the county seat, or to one of the other places where the court is
held, whichever shall be nearer or more accessible to such defendant or
defendants. If the process is made returnable to some other place than the
county seat the place to which it is returnable shall be designated therein. For
all jurisdictional requirements hereunder the county seat and each and all of
the places designated for the holding of the court shall be deemed to be a part
of each and every magisterial district in the county.

HISTORY: 1972, c. 708; 1973, c. 546.