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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 881 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1988 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1997, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?971+ful+CHAP0587\">587<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1384827,"object_type":"law","relational_id":348386,"identifier":"15.2-4104","token":"15.2\/III\/41\/15.2-4104","url":"\/15.2-4104\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-4104\/","token":"15.2\/III\/41\/15.2-4104","dublin_core":{"Title":"Time limit for intervenors; publication of order","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-4104","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The special <span class=\"dictionary\">court<\/span> shall by <span class=\"dictionary\">order<\/span> fix a time within which a qualified <span class=\"dictionary\">voter<\/span>, property owner, political subdivision, or other interested <span class=\"dictionary\">party<\/span> not served may become a <span class=\"dictionary\">party<\/span> to proceedings instituted under this chapter, and thereafter no such <span class=\"dictionary\">petition<\/span> shall be received except for good cause shown. 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A copy of the order\nshall be published at least once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper\nof general circulation in the city and county.\n\nHISTORY: 1988, c. 881, \u00a7 15.1-965.13; 1997, c. 587.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}