HB2624: Voluntary boundary; agreement between Counties of Caroline and Essex.
HOUSE BILL NO. 2624
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, between
the County of Loudoun and any town therein, or
between the Counties of Spotsylvania and Orange, or between
the Counties of Caroline and Essex, 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, between the County of Loudoun and any town therein, or between the Counties of
Spotsylvania and Orange, or between the Counties of
Caroline and Essex, 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.