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2005 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 16.1-69.29 and 17.1-516 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 16.1-69.29. Jurisdiction over certain waters.
Where any river, watercourse or bay lies between any counties
or any cities, or any county and city in this Commonwealth, the district courts
therein, on each side, respectively, shall have concurrent territorial
jurisdiction over so much thereof as shall be opposite to such counties and
cities. And such courts for counties or cities lying on the waters bounding the
Commonwealth shall have concurrent territorial jurisdiction respectively over
such waters opposite such counties and cities, as far as the jurisdiction of
this Commonwealth extends. But this section shall not apply to the Cities
City of Richmond and Norfolk.
§ 17.1-516. Jurisdiction of courts over certain waters.
Where any river, watercourse, or bay lies between any counties
or any cities, or any county and city in this Commonwealth, the circuit courts
for the counties and the cities, on each side, respectively, shall have
concurrent territorial jurisdiction over so much thereof as shall be opposite
to such counties and cities. And the circuit courts for counties and cities
lying on the waters bounding the Commonwealth shall have concurrent territorial
jurisdiction respectively over such waters opposite such counties and cities,
as far as the jurisdiction of this Commonwealth extends. This section shall not
apply to the Cities of Norfolk and City of Richmond.