CODE OF VIRGINIA

PRETRIAL CONFERENCE; MATTERS CONSIDERED (§ 15.2-3806)

The special court shall, prior to hearing any case under this chapter, direct
the attorneys for the parties to appear before it or, in its discretion, before
a single judge, for a conference to consider:

   1.  Simplification of the issues;

   2.  Amendment of pleadings and filing of additional pleadings;

   3.  Stipulations as to facts, documents, records, photographs, plans and like
   matters, which will dispense with formal proof thereof, including:
               
               
            

      a.  Assessed values and the ratio of assessed values to true values, as
      determined by the State Department of Taxation, in the town seeking to
      become a city and in the remaining portion of the county including real
      property, personal property, machinery and tools, merchants’ capital
      and public service corporation assessment for each year of the five years
      immediately preceding;

      b.  School population and school enrollment in the town seeking to become a
      city and in the remaining portion of the county, as shown by the records in
      the office of the division superintendent of schools; and the cost of
      education per pupil in average daily membership, as shown by the most recent
      report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction; and

      c.  Population and the population density of the town seeking to become a
      city and of the remaining portion of the county;

   4.  The method of taking any population census requested by the petitioner;

   5.  Limitation on the number of expert witnesses; each expert witness who will
   testify shall file a statement of his qualifications; and

   6.  Such other matters as may aid in the disposition of the case.

The court, or the judge, as the case may be, shall make an appropriate order
which will control the subsequent conduct of the case unless modified before or
during the trial or hearing to prevent manifest injustice.

HISTORY: 1979, c. 85, § 15.1-982.7; 1997, c. 587; 2010, cc. 386, 629.