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2023 SESSION

23103613D
HOUSE BILL NO. 2323
Offered January 12, 2023
A BILL to amend and reenact § 1-211.1 of the Code of Virginia, as it shall become effective, relating to posting of notices.
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Patron-- Hope
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Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

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

§ 1-211.1. (Effective July 1, 2024) Courthouse; posting of notices.

If any notice, summons, order, or other official document of any type is required to be posted by a circuit court clerk 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 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, and (ii) posted on the public government website of the locality served by the court or the website of the circuit court clerk. The chief judge of the circuit in which the courthouse is situated shall also approve a location, at or near the principal public entrance to the courthouse, that is conspicuous to the public for physical posting of such notice.

2. That the provisions of this act shall become effective on July 1, 2025.