§ 15.2-2900 Purpose and intent
§ 15.2-2901 Membership; appointment, terms and qualifications of members; vacancies; Executive Director
§ 15.2-2902 Continuing temporary membership for purposes of Commission reports
§ 15.2-2903 General powers and duties of Commission
§ 15.2-2904 Meetings; quorum; majority vote; panel to conduct investigation and make report; compensation and expenses
§ 15.2-2905 Officers
§ 15.2-2906 Disqualification of Commissioners
§ 15.2-2907 Actions for annexation, immunity, establishment of city, etc.; investigations and reports by Commission; negotiation
§ 15.2-2908 Notice to Commission deemed to institute action or proceeding
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Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 15.2 > Subtitle III > Chapter 29 - Commission on Local Government

  • County: means any existing county or such unit hereafter created. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
  • Court: means any court vested with appropriate jurisdiction under the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth. See Virginia Code 19.2-5
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
  • Judge: means any judge, associate judge or substitute judge of any court or any magistrate. See Virginia Code 19.2-5
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • local government: shall be construed to mean a county, city, or town as the context may require. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
  • Locality: means a county, city, or town as the context may require. See Virginia Code 1-221
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Person: includes any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, government, political subdivision, or any other legal or commercial entity and any successor, representative, agent, agency, or instrumentality thereof. See Virginia Code 1-230
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Town: means any existing town or an incorporated community within one or more counties which became a town before noon, July one, nineteen hundred seventy-one, as provided by law or which has within defined boundaries a population of 1,000 or more and which has become a town as provided by law. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • United States: includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-255
  • Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
  • Voter: means a qualified voter as defined in § Virginia Code 15.2-102