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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?961+ful+CHAP0337\">337<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?961+ful+CHAP0349\">349<\/a> 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. 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":1384863,"object_type":"law","relational_id":348396,"identifier":"15.2-4113","token":"15.2\/III\/41\/15.2-4113","url":"\/15.2-4113\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-4113\/","token":"15.2\/III\/41\/15.2-4113","dublin_core":{"Title":"Restriction on subsequent change in status","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-4113","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Notwithstanding any contrary provision of <span class=\"dictionary\">law<\/span>, general or special, a <span class=\"dictionary\">town<\/span> created under this chapter shall not return to its previous independent <span class=\"dictionary\">city<\/span> status.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nRESTRICTION ON SUBSEQUENT CHANGE IN STATUS (\u00a7 15.2-4113)\n\nNotwithstanding any contrary provision of law, general or special, a town\ncreated under this chapter shall not return to its previous independent city\nstatus.\n\nHISTORY: 1996, cc. 337, 349, \u00a7 15.1-965.22:1; 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"}}