Short title; purpose
Known as the Administrative Process Act
The act spans §§ 2–2 (50 sections).
Applied in 20 court decisions — leading case VIRGINIA MARINE RESOURCES COM'N v. Clark (2011)
Most recently applied in 145 F. Supp. 3d 601 - Sierra Club v. Virginia Electric & Power Co. (November 2015)
1975, c. 503, §§ 9-6.14:1. 9-6.14:3; 1977, c. 647; 1984, c. 5; 2001, c. 844.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
A. This chapter may be cited as the "Administrative Process Act."
B. The purpose of this chapter is to supplement present and future basic laws conferring authority on agencies either to make regulations or decide cases as well as to standardize court review thereof save as laws hereafter enacted may otherwise expressly provide. This chapter shall not supersede or repeal additional procedural requirements in such basic laws.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.