                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ALL LANDOWNERS NEED NOT BE LISTED IN PETITION; AMENDMENTS (§ 21-304)

To render the practical application of this chapter possible in all drainage
cases, it shall be sufficient for the petitioners to exercise due diligence to
ascertain the names of all the landowners and those having title to land in the
proposed district, and it shall not be necessary for the petitioners to list and
include with the petition, filed with the clerk, the names of all the landowners
in the proposed district; but after the filing thereof with the clerk, as the
proceeding progresses, the petition may be amended as often as may be necessary
to include the names of additional landowners when, and if others are
subsequently ascertained, so that the petition may finally show the names of all
the landowners it is possible to ascertain in the proposed district. The names
of landowners, if any, in the proposed district, which it was impossible to
ascertain after the exercise of due diligence, as aforesaid, shall be classified
as unknown owners, who may, at any time, become parties to the proceeding as
provided for in § 21-309.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 1738; 1926, p. 607.