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2015 SESSION
15102763DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 16.1-106 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 16.1-106. Appeals from courts not of record in civil cases.
From any order entered or judgment rendered in a court not of
record in a civil case in which the matter in controversy is of greater value
than $50
$20, exclusive of interest, any attorney fees contracted
for in the instrument, and costs, or when the case involves the
constitutionality or validity of a statute of the Commonwealth, or of an
ordinance or bylaw of a municipal corporation, or of the enforcement of rights
and privileges conferred by the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (§ 2.2-3700
et seq.), or of a protective order pursuant to § 19.2-152.10, or of an action
filed by a condominium unit owners' association or unit owner pursuant to §
55-79.80:2, or of an action filed by a property owners' association or lot
owner pursuant to § 55-513, there shall be an appeal of right, if taken within
10 days after such order or judgment, to a court of record. Such appeal shall
be to a court of record having jurisdiction within the territory of the court
from which the appeal is taken and shall be heard de novo.
The court from which an appeal is sought may refuse to suspend the execution of a judgment that refuses, grants, modifies, or dissolves an injunction in a case brought pursuant to § 2.2-3713 of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. A protective order issued pursuant to § 19.2-152.10, including a protective order required by § 18.2-60.4, shall remain in effect upon petition for or the pendency of an appeal or writ of error unless ordered suspended by the judge of a circuit court or so directed in a writ of supersedeas by the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court.