8.01-300 - How process served on municipal and county governments and on quasi-governmental entities.
§ 8.01-300. How process served on municipal and county governments and onquasi-governmental entities.
Notwithstanding the provisions of § 8.01-299 for service of process on otherdomestic corporations, process shall be served on municipal and countygovernments and quasi-governmental bodies or agencies in the following manner:
1. If the case be against a city or a town, on its city or town attorney inthose cities or towns which have created such a position, otherwise on itsmayor, manager or trustee of such town or city; and
2. If the case be against a county, on its county attorney in those countieswhich have created such a position, otherwise on its attorney for theCommonwealth; and
3. If the case be against any political subdivision, or any other publicgovernmental entity created by the laws of the Commonwealth and subject tosuit as an entity separate from the Commonwealth, then on the director,commissioner, chief administrative officer, attorney, or any member of thegoverning body of such entity; and
4. If the case be against a supervisor, county officer, employee or agent ofthe county board, arising out of official actions of such supervisor,officer, employee or agent, then, in addition to the person named defendantin the case, on each supervisor and the county attorney, if the county has acounty attorney, and if there be no county attorney, on the clerk of thecounty board.
Service under this section may be made by leaving a copy with the person incharge of the office of any officer designated in subdivisions 1 through 4.
(Code 1950, § 8-59; 1954, c. 23; 1956, c. 432; 1958, c. 13; 1976, c. 395;1977, c. 617; 1980, c. 732; 1985, c. 416.)