Virginia Code 15.2-2206: When locality may require applicant to give notice; how given
Any locality may by ordinance require that a person applying to the local governing body, local planning commission or board of zoning appeals pursuant to this chapter be responsible for all required notices. The locality shall require that notice be given as provided by § 15.2-2204.
Terms Used In Virginia Code 15.2-2206
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Governing body: means the board of supervisors of a county, council of a city, or council of a town, as the context may require. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
- in writing: include any representation of words, letters, symbols, numbers, or figures, whether (i) printed or inscribed on a tangible medium or (ii) stored in an electronic or other medium and retrievable in a perceivable form and whether an electronic signature authorized by Chapter 42. See Virginia Code 1-257
- Local planning commission: means a municipal planning commission or a county planning commission. See Virginia Code 15.2-2201
- Locality: means a county, city, or town as the context may require. See Virginia Code 1-221
- real estate: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights and appurtenances thereto and interests therein, other than a chattel interest. See Virginia Code 1-219
The locality may provide that, in the case of a condominium or of a cooperative, the written notice may be mailed to the unit owners’ association or proprietary lessee’s association, respectively, in lieu of each individual unit owner.
The applicant may rely upon records of the local real estate assessor’s office to ascertain the names of persons entitled to notice.
A certification of notice and a listing of the persons to whom notice has been sent shall be supplied by the applicant as required by the local governing body at least five days prior to the first hearing.
The governing body shall allow any person entitled to notice to waive such right in writing.
Nothing herein shall be construed so as to affect the validity of any ordinance or amendment adopted prior to July 1, 1992.
1992, c. 517, § 15.1-431.1; 1997, c. 587.