Virginia Code — 1
Browse 129 sections in division 1 of the Virginia code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
Sections (showing up to 300)
- § 1-1. Contents and designation of Code
- § 1-2. Effective date of Code
- § 1-2.1. Effective date of certain provisions
- § 1-3. Repeal of acts of a general nature
- § 1-4. Effect of such repeal generally; effect of revision or amendment of state Constitution
- § 1-5. Effect of such repeal as to persons in office
- § 1-6. Effect of repeal of validating statutes
- § 1-7. Acts passed between certain dates not affected
- § 1-8. Notice, recognizance or process given, taken or issued before Code in force
- § 1-9. Pending cases; parties; where books, records and papers to remain
- § 1-10. Repealed
- § 1-200. The common law
- § 1-201. Acts of Parliament
- § 1-202. General rule of construction
- § 1-203. Adult
- § 1-204. Age of majority
- § 1-205. Bond with surety
- § 1-206. Certified mail equivalent to registered mail; certain subsequent mail or notice may be sent by regular mail
- § 1-207. Child; juvenile; minor; infant
- § 1-208. City
- § 1-208.1. Carbon-free energy; clean energy
- § 1-209. Collegial body
- § 1-210. Computation of time
- § 1-211. Constitutional references
- § 1-211.1. Courthouse; posting of notices
- § 1-212. Courts of record
- § 1-213. Delegation of duties assigned to political subdivision
- § 1-214. Effective dates
- § 1-215. Ex officio
- § 1-216. Gender
- § 1-217. Headlines of sections
- § 1-218. Includes
- § 1-219. Land; real estate
- § 1-219.1. Limitations on eminent domain
- § 1-220. Local ordinances incorporating state law by reference
- § 1-221. Locality
- § 1-222. Majority authority
- § 1-222.1. Manufacturer
- § 1-223. Month; year
- § 1-224. Municipality; incorporated communities; municipal corporation
- § 1-225. Nonlegislative citizen member
- § 1-226. Notary
- § 1-227. Number
- § 1-228. Oath
- § 1-229. Optional form of county government; effect of change in form
- § 1-230. Person
- § 1-231. When "person" includes business trust and limited liability company
- § 1-232. Person under disability
- § 1-233. Personal estate
- § 1-234. Personal representative
- § 1-235. Population; inhabitants
- § 1-236. Population classifications
- § 1-237. Process
- § 1-238. Reenacted
- § 1-239. Repeal not to affect liabilities; mitigation of punishment
- § 1-240. Repeal not to revive former act
- § 1-240.1. Rights of parents
- § 1-241. Seal
- § 1-242. Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections
- § 1-243. Severability
- § 1-244. Short title citations
- § 1-245. State
- § 1-246. Stricken language or italics
- § 1-247. Summaries of legislation
- § 1-248. Supremacy of federal and state law
- § 1-249. Supreme Court
- § 1-250. Swear; sworn
- § 1-251. Systems of state highways
- § 1-252. Tier-city
- § 1-253. Time zone
- § 1-254. Town
- § 1-255. United States
- § 1-256. Weights and measurements; metric equivalents
- § 1-257. Written; writing; in writing
- § 1-18. Repealed
- § 1-300. Boundaries
- § 1-301. Extent of territory of the Commonwealth after the Constitution of 1776
- § 1-302. Jurisdiction and ownership of Commonwealth over offshore waters and submerged lands
- § 1-303. Cession of territory northwest of Ohio River
- § 1-304. Boundary with North Carolina
- § 1-305. Boundary with North Carolina eastward from low-water mark of Atlantic Ocean
- § 1-306. Boundary with Tennessee
- § 1-307. Compact and boundary with Kentucky
- § 1-308. Boundary with Maryland
- § 1-309. Boundary with Maryland eastward from Assateague Island
- § 1-310. Boundary with Maryland in upper reaches of Pocomoke sound and lower reaches of Pocomoke River
- § 1-311. Recession of portion of District of Columbia
- § 1-312. Boundary with District of Columbia
- § 1-313. Boundary line between Loudoun County, Virginia, and Jefferson County, West Virginia
- § 1-400. Conditional consent given to acquisition of lands by United States; concurrent jurisdiction ceded
- § 1-401. Ceding additional jurisdiction to United States
- § 1-402. Shenandoah National Park
- § 1-403. Conveyances of certain waste and unappropriated lands and marshlands to the United States
- § 1-404. Licensing sale of mixed alcoholic beverages on lands ceded to or owned by United States
- § 1-405. Reversion to Commonwealth; recorded title prerequisite to vesting jurisdiction
- § 1-406. Conveyances to political subdivisions of lands ceded to and no longer used by United States
- § 1-407. Concurrent jurisdiction of Commonwealth and United States over certain lands leased to political subdivisions
- § 1-408. Relinquishment by United States of jurisdiction over lands in the Commonwealth
- § 1-500. The great seal
- § 1-501. The lesser seal
- § 1-502. Custody; impressions displayed in The Library of Virginia
- § 1-503. Uses and tax on great seal
- § 1-504. Uses and tax on lesser seal
- § 1-505. Seals deemed property of Commonwealth; unauthorized use; penalty
- § 1-506. Flag of the Commonwealth
- § 1-507. Governor to prescribe size of flag
- § 1-508. Director of General Services to have available flags of the Commonwealth for sale
- § 1-509. When flag to be suspended over Capitol
- § 1-510. Official emblems and designations
- § 1-511. English designated the official language of the Commonwealth
- § 1-512. Poet laureate
- § 1-600. (For contingent expiration date, see Acts 2025, cc. 91 and 109, cl. 2) Virginia coordinate systems designated
- § 1-600. (For contingent effective date, see Acts 2025, cc. 91 and 109, cl. 2) Virginia coordinate systems designated
- § 1-601. (For contingent expiration date, see Acts 2025, cc. 91 and 109, cl. 2) North and South Zones
- § 1-601. (For contingent effective date, see Acts 2025, cc. 91 and 109, cl. 2) North and South Zones
- § 1-602. (For contingent expiration date, see Acts 2025, cc. 91 and 109, cl. 2) Designation of systems in land description
- § 1-602. (For contingent effective date, see Acts 2025, cc. 91 and 109, cl. 2) Designation of systems in land description
- § 1-603. (For contingent expiration date, see Acts 2025, cc. 91 and 109, cl. 2) Plane coordinates used in systems
- § 1-603. (For contingent effective date, see Acts 2025, cc. 91 and 109, cl. 2) Plane coordinates used in systems
- § 1-604. Tract of land lying in both coordinate zones
- § 1-605. (For contingent expiration date, see Acts 2025, cc. 91 and 109, cl. 2) Definition of systems by National Ocean Service/National Geodetic Survey; adopted
- § 1-605. (For contingent effective date, see Acts 2025, cc. 91 and 109, cl. 2) Definition of systems by National Ocean Service/National Geodetic Survey; adopted
- § 1-606. (For contingent effective date, see Acts 2025, cc. 91 and 109, cl. 2) Position of systems
- § 1-606. (For contingent expiration date, see Acts 2025, cc. 91 and 109, cl. 2) Position of systems
- § 1-607. Limitation on use of systems
- § 1-608. (For contingent expiration date, see Acts 2025, cc. 91 and 109, cl. 2) Limitation on use of name of systems
- § 1-608. (For contingent effective date, see Acts 2025, cc. 91 and 109, cl. 2) Limitation on use of name of systems
- § 1-609. Use of system not compulsory
- § 1-610. Old Dominion University designated as administrative agency