15.2-3238 - What court may do. - Virginia Statutes

§ 15.2-3238. What court may do.

If the special court is satisfied that: (i) such contraction of the corporatelimits will not leave the bonded debt of the city or town in excess of tenpercent of the assessed valuation of the real estate that will be left in thecity or town after the proposed contraction, which debt shall be determinedas is provided in Article VII, Section 10 of the Constitution of Virginia;(ii) less than three fourths of the landowners in that territory oppose thecontraction; (iii) no substantial damage to persons owning real estate in theterritory proposed to be abandoned, or to the county of which it will becomea part, will be caused by the contraction; and (iv) the abandonment of suchterritory will be in the best interest of the city or town, the court shallrender an order confirming the ordinance contracting the limits of the cityor town and declaring the territory abandoned to be a part of the contiguouscounty designated in the order. Such contraction shall thereupon become finaland be taken cognizance of by all public officers, and the territoryabandoned shall become a part of the county so designated. Whenever such anorder is rendered, a copy of the order shall be certified to the Secretary ofthe Commonwealth.

(Code 1950, § 15-155; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-1061; 1970, c. 751; 1971, Ex.Sess., c. 1; 1978, c. 642; 1997, c. 587.)