CHAPTER 422

An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-508 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to how counttes may sue and be sued. 3 6107

Approved April 2, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15.1-508 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 15.1-508. How counties may sue and be sued.—Every county may
sue in its own name for forfeitures, fines or penalties given by law to such
county, or upon contracts made with it; and, subject to the provisions of
§§ 15.1-557 and 15.1-558, to be sued in its own name in the circuit court
of such county, and the process instituting such suit may be executed by
being served on the Commonwealth’s attorney of the county or upon the
county attorney tn those counties which have created the office of the county
attorney.