                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SERVICE AND RETURN OF SUMMONS; APPOINTMENT OF BOARD OF VIEWERS (§ 21-297)

The summons may be served by publication as to any defendants who cannot be
personally served, as provided by law. Such summons shall be returnable to the
first day of any regular term of the circuit court of the county, during which
term, or some succeeding term, the court, after determining the sufficiency of
the petition, shall immediately enter of record three interested resident
freeholders of the proposed project in which the lands are located who have been
elected by a majority of the petitioners. Such persons appointed shall
constitute a board of viewers who shall select and designate an engineer, or
other person experienced with drainage, deemed qualified by the board of viewers
to make a preliminary survey and report thereon. After the appointment of the
board the question of the sufficiency of the petition may not be again raised,
unless the boundary of the district be subsequently changed by the court.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 1738; 1920, p. 608; 1924, p. 708; 1926, p. 606; 1954, c.
642.