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2024 SESSION


VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY -- CHAPTER
An Act to amend and reenact § 1-211.1, as it is currently effective, of the Code of Virginia and to repeal Chapter 683 of the Acts of Assembly of 2022 and Chapter 598 of the Acts of Assembly of 2023, relating to courthouses and website posting of notices.
[H 1338]
Approved

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 1-211.1, as it is currently effective, of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 1-211.1. Courthouse; posting of notices.

If any notice, summons, order, or other official document of any type is required to be posted pursuant to a provision of the Code on or at the front door of a courthouse or on a public bulletin board at a courthouse, it shall constitute compliance with this requirement if the notice, summons, order, or other official document is (i) posted on the public government website of the locality served by the court or the website of any court, court clerk, sheriff, or commissioner of accounts of the locality or (ii) posted with other such documents where such notice, summons, order, or other official document is posted or at or near the principal public entrance to the courthouse in a location that is conspicuous to the public and approved by the chief judge of the circuit in which the courthouse is situated, or both. The requirement to post any notice, summons, order, or other official document of any type is satisfied if such notice, summons, order, or other official document is posted on the public government website of the locality served by the court or the website of the circuit court clerk.

2. That Chapter 683 of the Acts of Assembly of 2022 and Chapter 598 of the Acts of Assembly of 2023 are repealed.