15.2-2405 - How imposed. - Virginia Statutes

§ 15.2-2405. How imposed.

Such improvements may be ordered by the governing body and the cost thereofapportioned in pursuance of an agreement between the governing body and theabutting landowners, and, in the absence of such an agreement, the cost ofimprovements which is to be defrayed in whole or in part by such local tax orassessment, may in cities and towns be ordered on a petition from not lessthan three-fourths of the landowners to be affected thereby, or in countieson a petition from not less than sixty percent of the landowners to beaffected thereby or by a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to thegoverning body. Notice shall be given to the abutting landowners, notifyingthem when and where they may appear before the governing body, or somecommittee thereof, or the administrative board or other similar board of thelocality to whom the matter may be referred, to be heard in favor of oragainst such improvements.

(Code 1950, § 15-670; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-240; 1997, c. 587.)