CHAPTER 26

N ACT to amend and reenact § 15-130 of the Code of 1950 relat-
ing to notice to be given in anneration proceedings; to provide
that service shall be on each member of the board of super-
visors instead of on the board as a body.

[S 19]

Approved February 20, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

That § 15-130 of the Code of 1950 is amended and reenacted as
lows:

§ 15-130. Notice to be given county; how executed.—In any
nexation proceeding instituted the city or town shall give notice
to the Commonwealth’s attorney and to each member of the board
of supervisors of the county or counties wherein such territory
lies that it will, on a given day, not less than thirty days there-
after, move the circuit court of the county wherein the greater
part of such territory lies, or the judges who shall hear the case,
to make an order authorizing and declaring the annexation pro-
vided for in the ordinance, with which notice shall be served a
certified copy of the‘ordinance. A copy of the notice and ordi:
nance shall be published at least once a week for four successive
weeks in some newspaper published in such city or town, and
when there is no newspaper published therein, then in a news-
paper published in some neighboring city or town having circula-
tion in the county or counties whose territory is to be affected.
The notice and ordinance, after being served, shall be returned to
the clerk of the circuit court and when the publication is com-
pleted, of which the certificate of the owner, editor or manager of
the newspaper publishing it shall be proof, the case shall be
docketed for hearing.