Bill Text: VA HB548 | 2018 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Spotsylvania and Orange, Counties of; boundary agreement, attachment of GIS map to petitions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-03-19 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0319) [HB548 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2018-HB548-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §15.2-3108 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§15.2-3108. Petition and hearing; recordation of order; costs.
Within a reasonable time after a voluntary boundary agreement
is adopted by the affected localities, each affected locality shall petition
the circuit court for one of the affected localities to approve the boundary
agreement. The petition shall set forth the facts pertaining to the desire to
relocate or change the boundary line between the localities, and the petition
shall include or have attached to it either (i) a plat depicting the change in
the boundaries of the localities as agreed; (ii) a metes and bounds description
of the new boundary line as agreed upon by the two localities; or (iii)
regarding the boundary between the Counties of Louisa and Goochland or,
between the County of Loudoun and any town therein, or between the Counties
of Spotsylvania and Orange, a Geographic Information System (GIS) map
depicting the change in the boundaries of the localities as agreed, having been
established by Virginia State Plane Coordinates System, South Zone or North
Zone, as applicable, meeting National Geodetic Survey standards. If the court
finds that the procedures required by §15.2-3107 have been complied with and that
the petition is otherwise in proper order, the court shall enter an appropriate
order establishing the new boundary. The order shall include a plat depicting
the change in the boundaries of the locality, a metes and bounds description of
the new boundary line of the locality, or, regarding the boundary between the
Counties of Louisa and Goochland or, between the County of
Loudoun and any town therein, or between the Counties of Spotsylvania and
Orange, a GIS map depicting the change in the boundaries of the localities
that includes the Virginia State Plane, South Zone or North Zone coordinates,
as applicable, and that order shall be entered in the land records of the court
and indexed in the names of the localities which were involved. Costs shall be
awarded as the court may determine. Whenever such an order is entered, a
certified copy of the order shall be sent to the Secretary of the Commonwealth
by the clerk of the court.
