CODE OF VIRGINIA

HOW AMENDMENTS MADE TO FRANCHISE, ETC.; NOTICE REQUIRED (§ 15.2-2105)

No amendment or extension of any franchise, right, lease or privilege that now
exists, or that may hereafter be authorized, which extends or enlarges the time
or territory of such franchise, right, lease or privilege, shall be granted by
any city or town until the provisions of §§ 15.2-2101 through 15.2-2104 have
been complied with. No amendment that releases the grantee, or his assignee,
from the performance of any duty required by the ordinance or that authorizes an
increase in the user charges to be made by such grantee or assignee shall be
granted until notice of such proposed amendment has given to the public by
advertising the proposed amendment for ten days in some newspaper having general
circulation in the city or town. The cost of such advertising shall be paid by
the city or town, which shall be reimbursed by the person to whom the amendment
is granted. No such amendment shall be adopted except by ordinance.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 15-734; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-314; 1997, c. 587.