15.2-3803 - Notice of motion; service and publication; answer or other pleading.
§ 15.2-3803. Notice of motion; service and publication; answer or otherpleading.
At least thirty days before instituting a proceeding for a grant of citystatus, a town shall serve notice on the county attorney, or if there isnone, on the attorney for the Commonwealth, and on the chairman of the boardof supervisors of the county or counties within which the town lies that itwill, on a given day, petition the circuit court for a grant of city status.The notice served on each official shall include a certified copy of theordinance. A copy of the notice and ordinance, or a descriptive summary ofthe notice and ordinance and a reference to the place within the town wherecopies of the notice and ordinance may be examined, shall be published atleast once a week for four successive weeks in a newspaper having generalcirculation in the town and county, or counties, in which the town issituated. The notice and ordinance shall be returned after service to theclerk of the circuit court. Certification from the owner, editor or managerof the newspaper publishing the notice and ordinance shall be proof ofpublication.
(1979, c. 85, § 15.1-982.3; 1997, c. 587.)