Code of Virginia
Chapter 32 - Boundary Changes of Towns and Cities
§ 15.2-3205. Additional parties

A. In any proceedings hereunder any qualified voters or property owners in the territory proposed to be annexed or any adjoining city or town may, by petition, become parties to such proceeding as provided in subsection B hereof. Any county whose territory is affected by the proceedings, or any city, town or persons affected thereby, may appear and shall be made parties defendant to the case, and be represented by counsel.
B. The special court shall by order, fix a time within which such additional parties not served may become defendants to such proceeding, and thereafter, no such petition shall be received, except for good cause shown. A copy of the order shall be published at least once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the city or town seeking the territory and in the territory sought to be annexed.
C. The cost of such publication shall be paid by the petitioner or applicant.
Code 1950, § 15-152.6; 1952, c. 328; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-1036; 1979, c. 85; 1996, c. 352; 1997, c. 587.

Structure Code of Virginia

Code of Virginia

Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns

Chapter 32 - Boundary Changes of Towns and Cities

§ 15.2-3200. Boundaries of cities and towns to remain as established until changed

§ 15.2-3201. Temporary restrictions on granting of city charters, filing annexation notices, institutions of annexation proceedings, and county immunity proceedings

§ 15.2-3202. Ordinance for annexation by city or town; appointment of special court

§ 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

§ 15.2-3204. Notice of motion; service and publication

§ 15.2-3205. Additional parties

§ 15.2-3206. Conflicting petitions for same territory; petition seeking territory lying in two or more counties; procedure

§ 15.2-3207. Pretrial conference; matters considered

§ 15.2-3208. Assistance of state agencies

§ 15.2-3209. Hearing and decision

§ 15.2-3210. Boundary line where territory fronts on river, bay, etc.

§ 15.2-3211. Powers of court and rules of decision; terms and conditions

§ 15.2-3212. Determination of value of public improvements

§ 15.2-3213. Declining to accept annexation on terms and conditions imposed by court

§ 15.2-3214. Costs

§ 15.2-3215. County reimbursement for town annexation proceedings

§ 15.2-3216. Proceedings not to fail for technical or procedural defects or errors

§ 15.2-3217. Court granting annexation to exist for 10 years

§ 15.2-3218. Continued existence of court under certain conditions

§ 15.2-3219. Reduced taxation on real estate in territory added to corporate limits

§ 15.2-3220. Mandamus and prohibition

§ 15.2-3221. Appeals; how heard

§ 15.2-3222. What order to be entered by the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals

§ 15.2-3223. What order and proceedings clerk to certify, and where same shall be recorded; fees

§ 15.2-3224. Commissioner of revenue for the county to certify list of real estate in annexed territory to commissioner of revenue

§ 15.2-3225. County or district officers resident in annexed territory to remain in office; reelection

§ 15.2-3226. Redistricting and elections in city or town following annexation; registration and transfer of registration of voters in annexed territory

§ 15.2-3227. Annexation proceedings final for 10 years

§ 15.2-3228. County not to be reduced to insufficient area, population or sources of revenue

§ 15.2-3229. Annexation of whole town

§ 15.2-3230. Article not applicable to consolidation of two cities

§ 15.2-3231. Agreements between towns and counties authorized; effect; provisions

§ 15.2-3232. Hearing before Commission on Local Government required; notice

§ 15.2-3233. Adoption of agreement

§ 15.2-3234. Inability to agree; petition to Commission on Local Government

§ 15.2-3235. Appeal

§ 15.2-3236. Council may enact ordinance

§ 15.2-3237. Application to be made to circuit court; appointment of special court; who may appear against

§ 15.2-3238. What court may do

§ 15.2-3239. Certification of real estate list

§ 15.2-3240. Transfer of registration records

§ 15.2-3241. Petition for contraction of towns located in two or more counties; appointment of special court

§ 15.2-3242. Parties defendant and publication of such petition

§ 15.2-3243. Hearing and order upon such petition

§ 15.2-3244. Appeal from such order

§ 15.2-3245. Validation of proceedings