SB78: Voluntary boundary agreements within Loudoun County; attachment of GIS map.


VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY -- CHAPTER
An Act to amend and reenact § 15.2-3108 of the Code of Virginia, relating to voluntary boundary agreements; GIS map.
[S 78]
Approved

 

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, 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, a GIS map depicting the change in the boundaries of the localities that includes the Virginia State Plane, South Zone coordinates 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.


SENATE BILL NO. 78
Senate Amendments in [ ] -- January 25, 2016
A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-3108 of the Code of Virginia, relating to voluntary boundary agreements; GIS map.
Patron Prior to Engrossment--Senator Wexton

Referred to Committee on Local Government

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, 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, a GIS map depicting the change in the boundaries of the localities that includes the Virginia State Plane, South Zone  [ coordinates 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.

SENATE BILL NO. 78

Offered January 13, 2016
Prefiled December 21, 2015
A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-3108 of the Code of Virginia, relating to voluntary boundary agreements; GIS map.
Patron-- Wexton

Referred to Committee on Local Government

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, 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, 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, a GIS map depicting the change in the boundaries of the localities that includes the Virginia State Plane, South Zone coordinates, 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.