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- Va. Code § 15.2-2901 · Membership; appointment, terms and qualifications of members; vacancies; Executive Director
- Va. Code § 15.2-2902 · Continuing temporary membership for purposes of Commission reports
- Va. Code § 15.2-2903 · General powers and duties of Commission
- Va. Code § 15.2-2904 · Meetings; quorum; majority vote; panel to conduct investigation and make report; compensation and expenses
- Va. Code § 15.2-2905 · Officers
- Va. Code § 15.2-2906 · Disqualification of Commissioners
- Va. Code § 15.2-2907 · Actions for annexation, immunity, establishment of city, etc.; investigations and reports by Commission; negotiation
- Va. Code § 15.2-2908 · Notice to Commission deemed to institute action or proceeding
- Va. Code § 15.2-3000 · Special court to hear certain cases
- Va. Code § 15.2-3001 · Priority of proceedings in special courts
- Va. Code § 15.2-3002 · Designation of judges for panel
- Va. Code § 15.2-3003 · Service on special court
- Va. Code § 15.2-3004 · Vacancies on court occurring during trial
- Va. Code § 15.2-3100 · Commissioners to settle disputed boundary lines
- Va. Code § 15.2-3101 · Survey and plats
- Va. Code § 15.2-3102 · Report of commissioners
- Va. Code § 15.2-3103 · Compensation of commissioners, etc
- Va. Code § 15.2-3104 · Procedure when commissioners fail to agree
- Va. Code § 15.2-3105 · Boundaries to embrace wharves, piers, docks and certain other structures
- Va. Code § 15.2-3106 · Establishment by agreement
- Va. Code § 15.2-3107 · Publication of agreed boundary line
- Va. Code § 15.2-3108 · Petition and hearing; recordation of order; costs
- Va. Code § 15.2-3109 · Court-ordered adjustment of boundary lines
- Va. Code § 15.2-3200 · Boundaries of cities and towns to remain as established until changed
- Va. Code § 15.2-3201 · Temporary restrictions on granting of city charters, filing annexation notices, institutions of annexation proceedings, and county immunity proceedings
- Va. Code § 15.2-3202 · Ordinance for annexation by city or town; appointment of special court
- Va. Code § 15.2-3203 · Petition by voters of adjacent territory, or governing body of adjacent county or town, for annexation; voluntary agreement by governing body to reject annexation
- Va. Code § 15.2-3204 · Notice of motion; service and publication
- Va. Code § 15.2-3205 · Additional parties
- Va. Code § 15.2-3206 · Conflicting petitions for same territory; petition seeking territory lying in two or more counties; procedure
- Va. Code § 15.2-3207 · Pretrial conference; matters considered
- Va. Code § 15.2-3208 · Assistance of state agencies
- Va. Code § 15.2-3209 · Hearing and decision
- Va. Code § 15.2-3210 · Boundary line where territory fronts on river, bay, etc
- Va. Code § 15.2-3211 · Powers of court and rules of decision; terms and conditions
- Va. Code § 15.2-3212 · Determination of value of public improvements
- Va. Code § 15.2-3213 · Declining to accept annexation on terms and conditions imposed by court
- Va. Code § 15.2-3214 · Costs
- Va. Code § 15.2-3215 · County reimbursement for town annexation proceedings
- Va. Code § 15.2-3216 · Proceedings not to fail for technical or procedural defects or errors
- Va. Code § 15.2-3217 · Court granting annexation to exist for 10 years
- Va. Code § 15.2-3218 · Continued existence of court under certain conditions
- Va. Code § 15.2-3219 · Reduced taxation on real estate in territory added to corporate limits
- Va. Code § 15.2-3220 · Mandamus and prohibition
- Va. Code § 15.2-3221 · Appeals; how heard
- Va. Code § 15.2-3222 · What order to be entered by the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals
- Va. Code § 15.2-3223 · What order and proceedings clerk to certify, and where same shall be recorded; fees
- Va. Code § 15.2-3224 · Commissioner of revenue for the county to certify list of real estate in annexed territory to commissioner of revenue
- Va. Code § 15.2-3225 · County or district officers resident in annexed territory to remain in office; reelection
- Va. Code § 15.2-3226 · Redistricting and elections in city or town following annexation; registration and transfer of registration of voters in annexed territory
- Va. Code § 15.2-3227 · Annexation proceedings final for 10 years
- Va. Code § 15.2-3228 · County not to be reduced to insufficient area, population or sources of revenue
- Va. Code § 15.2-3229 · Annexation of whole town
- Va. Code § 15.2-3230 · Article not applicable to consolidation of two cities
- Va. Code § 15.2-3231 · Agreements between towns and counties authorized; effect; provisions
- Va. Code § 15.2-3232 · Hearing before Commission on Local Government required; notice
- Va. Code § 15.2-3233 · Adoption of agreement
- Va. Code § 15.2-3234 · Inability to agree; petition to Commission on Local Government
- Va. Code § 15.2-3235 · Appeal
- Va. Code § 15.2-3236 · Council may enact ordinance
- Va. Code § 15.2-3237 · Application to be made to circuit court; appointment of special court; who may appear against
- Va. Code § 15.2-3238 · What court may do
- Va. Code § 15.2-3239 · Certification of real estate list
- Va. Code § 15.2-3240 · Transfer of registration records
- Va. Code § 15.2-3241 · Petition for contraction of towns located in two or more counties; appointment of special court
- Va. Code § 15.2-3242 · Parties defendant and publication of such petition
- Va. Code § 15.2-3243 · Hearing and order upon such petition
- Va. Code § 15.2-3244 · Appeal from such order
- Va. Code § 15.2-3245 · Validation of proceedings
- Va. Code § 15.2-3300 · Purposes of chapter
- Va. Code § 15.2-3301 · Initiation of proceeding for declaration of immunity
- Va. Code § 15.2-3302 · Criteria for total immunity; judicial determination
- Va. Code § 15.2-3303 · Notice of determination by court; effect on other proceedings
- Va. Code § 15.2-3304 · Immunity based upon provision of urban-type services
- Va. Code § 15.2-3305 · Duration of immunity
- Va. Code § 15.2-3306 · Limitations to immunity
- Va. Code § 15.2-3307 · Election of city barred from annexation to be treated as immune county
- Va. Code § 15.2-3308 · Partial immunity proceedings final for five years; exceptions
- Va. Code § 15.2-3400 · Voluntary settlements among local governments
- Va. Code § 15.2-3401 · Referendum on contracting of debt by counties in voluntary settlement agreements
- Va. Code § 15.2-3500 · Application of article
- Va. Code § 15.2-3501 · Authority to consolidate counties, cities or towns
- Va. Code § 15.2-3502 · Agreement for consolidation
- Va. Code § 15.2-3503 · Petition requesting agreement
- Va. Code § 15.2-3504 · Publication of agreement
- Va. Code § 15.2-3505 · Order for election
- Va. Code § 15.2-3506 · Conduct of election
- Va. Code § 15.2-3507 · Result of election
- Va. Code § 15.2-3508 · Election or appointment of county officers
- Va. Code § 15.2-3509 · Election or appointment of city or town officers
- Va. Code § 15.2-3510 · General effect of consolidation
- Va. Code § 15.2-3511 · Liabilities
- Va. Code § 15.2-3512 · Suits and prosecutions
- Va. Code § 15.2-3513 · Magisterial, school and election districts, etc
- Va. Code § 15.2-3514 · Courts and judicial circuits
- Va. Code § 15.2-3515 · Congressional and assembly districts
- Va. Code § 15.2-3516 · Registration of voters
- Va. Code § 15.2-3517 · Existing ordinances
- Va. Code § 15.2-3518 · Determination of rights
- Va. Code § 15.2-3519 · Repeal of certain charters