Clarifies that a husband and wife may own real or personal property as tenants by the entirety for as long as they are married. The bill provides that, in order to sever a tenancy by the entireties by written instrument, the instrument must be a deed that is signed by both spouses as grantors of the property. This bill is in response to
Prohibits any locality from requiring any taxpayer who is the lessor of real property to produce the lease for the purpose of determining whether the property is eligible for special assessment for land preservation.
Transfers authority to create or enlarge sanitary districts from the circuit court with jurisdiction over the locality in which the district is located to the governing body of the county in which the district is located. The bill requires the governing body, at a hearing for the creation or enlargement of a sanitary district, to make a finding of fact of whether the action is necessary, practical, fiscally responsible, and supported by at least 50 percent of persons who own real property in (i) the proposed district or (ii) in the case of enlargement, the area proposed to be included in the existing district. The bill also requires a minimum standard regarding timeliness for hearings.
Lowers the minimum size of industrial sites that may be included in the Authority's site and building assessment program from 250 acres to 100 acres. The bill contains a technical amendment. This bill is identical to
Provides that the separate division of the City of Richmond general district court that is operated south of the James River shall have concurrent jurisdiction over criminal matters arising in that part of the city, not exclusive jurisdiction over such matters. This bill is identical to
Provides that the form of garnishment summons will state that an employee who makes the minimum wage or less for his week's earnings will ordinarily get to keep 40 times the minimum hourly wage when such earnings are subject to a garnishment, not 30 times as stated in Title 8.01, Civil Remedies and Procedures. The bill is intended to reflect the current statutory requirement for exemptions in Title 34, Homestead and Other Exemptions, and is technical in nature. The bill further directs the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court to update the form of garnishment summons accordingly. This bill is identical to
Permits circuit court clerks to transfer electronically, or provide electronic access to, documents related to certain real property information to certain public officials.
Provides a procedure by which a personal representative of a decedent's estate may notify a creditor of a debt on certain property in the decedent's estate that such property passes without the right of exoneration. The bill provides the method by which such notice shall be sent. The bill provides that if such procedure is used, the creditor may file a claim for such debt with the commissioner of accounts, and if the creditor does not timely file such claim, the personal representative shall be liable for the debt up to an amount not exceeding the assets of the decedent remaining in possession of the personal representative and available for application to the debt. The bill does not have an effect on either the liability of the estate for such debt to the extent of the decedent's assets remaining at the time a claim is filed or the liability of the beneficiaries that receive the decedent's assets to the extent of such receipt. This bill is identical to
Postpones from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2018, the date by which the Department of Taxation is required to conduct its first recalculation of the percentage of funds in the Wireless E-911 Fund that is required to be distributed to each public safety answering point (PSAP). The recalculation is required to be based on the cost and call load data of each PSAP for the previous five fiscal years. This bill is identical to
Requires the clerk to make available to the Auditor of Public Accounts a copy of the annual report that the clerk is currently required to provide to the court regarding the receipt of money by the clerk. The bill further directs the clerk to record (i) trust fund orders and (ii) the annual trust fund report regarding the receipt of money in the civil order book. The bill removes the requirement that such recordings are in addition to, but not in lieu of, any other required recording.
Includes within the definition of "sales draft," with regard to offenses relating to credit cards, the electronic form evidencing a purchase of goods, services, or a thing of value. A person convicted of forgery of such a sales draft is guilty of a Class 5 felony.
Repeals the July 1, 2017, expiration date from 2014 legislation that raised the target balance of the Coal Surface Mining Reclamation Fund (the Fund) from $1.75 million to $20 million and altered the method of deducting certain expenditures from the Fund.
