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2020 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 8.01-317 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 8.01-317. What order of publication to state; how published; when publication in newspaper dispensed with; electronic notice.
Except in condemnation actions, every order of publication
shall give the abbreviated style of the suit, state briefly its object, and
require the defendants, or unknown parties, against whom it is entered to
appear and protect their interests on or before the date stated in the order
which shall be no sooner than fifty 50 days after entry of the order
of publication. Such order of publication shall be published once each week for
four successive weeks in such newspaper as the court may prescribe, or, if none
be so prescribed, as the clerk may direct, and shall be posted at the front
door of the courthouse wherein the court is held; also a copy of such order of
publication shall be mailed to each of the defendants at the post office
address given in the affidavit required by § 8.01-316. The clerk shall cause
copies of the order to be so posted, mailed, and transmitted to the designated
newspaper within twenty 20 days after the entry of the order of
publication. Upon completion of such publication, the clerk shall file a
certificate in the papers of the case that the requirements of this section
have been complied with. Provided, the The court may, in any case
where deemed proper, dispense with such publication in a newspaper or may
order that appropriate notice be given by electronic means, under such terms
and conditions as the court may direct, either in addition to or in lieu of
publication in a newspaper, provided that such electronic notice is reasonably
calculated, under all circumstances, to apprise interested parties of the
pendency of the action and afford them an opportunity to present their objections.
The cost of such publication or notice shall be paid by the petitioner
or applicant.