CODE OF VIRGINIA

PRETRIAL CONFERENCE; MATTERS CONSIDERED (§ 15.2-4105)

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 city seeking to
      become a town and in 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 city seeking to become a
      town and in the county, as shown by the records in the office of the
      division superintendent of schools; and cost of education per pupil in
      average daily membership, as shown by the last preceding report of the
      Superintendent of Public Instruction;

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

   4.  Long-term and short-term indebtedness of both the city and the county;

   5.  Limitation or expansion of pretrial discovery procedures;

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

   7.  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 for good
cause before or during the trial or hearing.

HISTORY: 1988, c. 881, § 15.1-965.15; 1997, c. 587; 2010, cc. 386, 629.