FAQs

How do I register?

Residents can register online by visiting http://fluvanna.recdesk.com. When registering online, you'll be required to create a family profile, a username and a password. Once registered, you will have access to sign up for any class or program we offer. Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover cards are accepted for online and in person registrations.

You can also register in person, by mail, or leave a completed registration form in one of our drop boxes located at:

• Pleasant Grove House Museum & Welcome Center, 271 Pleasant Grove Drive, Palmyra, VA 22963
• Fluvanna Community Center, 5725 James Madison Highway, Fork Union, VA 23055

If you have registration questions, please contact one of our operation centers PRIOR to the first day of registration 434-589-2016 or 434-842-3150.

The Fluvanna Community Center is open from 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. We are closed on Saturdays and Sundays, and all major holidays.

The Pleasant Grove House Museum & Welcome Center is open from 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday Saturdays and Sundays hours 12-4 pm closed all major holidays.

Registration is accepted during normal business hours and we also have drop boxes at the locations listed above for you to leave payment with registration information.

Our main office phone numbers are 434-842-3150 and 434-589-2016.

In case of inclement weather, call our Cancelation Line at 434-842-3150 or 434-589-2015

We will schedule make-ups for class cancelations due to inclement weather. Programs are canceled whenever COUNTY SCHOOLS are closed because of inclement weather.  All programs held at county schools are canceled when there is a COUNTY school holiday.

In order to request a refund, you must notify the Department by phone, by fax, by mail, or by E-mail according to our policy.  All refunds require approximately four weeks for a check to be mailed to you.

If there is a supply list for the class, you will need to bring those items listed.  Also, please remember to dress appropriately for your class location (inside, outside, day, night, etc.)

Fluvanna County has targeted Zion Crossroads as a growth area.  Water infrastructure is important aspect to attracting and expanding business development in Fluvanna County.

According to the Code of Virginia, statute 18.2-57 concerning Assault and battery states:

“A. Any person who commits a simple assault or assault and battery shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor, and if the person intentionally selects the person against whom a simple assault is committed because of his race, religious conviction, color or national origin, the penalty upon conviction shall include a term of confinement of at least six months, 30 days of which shall be a mandatory minimum term of confinement.

B. However, if a person intentionally selects the person against whom an assault and battery resulting in bodily injury is committed because of his race, religious conviction, color or national origin, the person shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony, and the penalty upon conviction shall include a term of confinement of at least six months, 30 days of which shall be a mandatory minimum term of confinement.

C. In addition, if any person commits an assault or an assault and battery against another knowing or having reason to know that such other person is a judge, a law-enforcement officer as defined hereinafter, a correctional officer as defined in 53.1-1, a person employed by the Department of Corrections directly involved in the care, treatment or supervision of inmates in the custody of the Department, a firefighter as defined in 65.2-102, or a volunteer firefighter or lifesaving or rescue squad member who is a member of a bona fide volunteer fire department or volunteer rescue or emergency medical squad regardless of whether a resolution has been adopted by the governing body of a political subdivision recognizing such firefighters or members as employees, engaged in the performance of his public duties, such person is guilty of a Class 6 felony, and, upon conviction, the sentence of such person shall include a mandatory minimum term of confinement of six months.

Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to affect the right of any person charged with a violation of this section from asserting and presenting evidence in support of any defenses to the charge that may be available under common law.

D. In addition, if any person commits a battery against another knowing or having reason to know that such other person is a full-time or part-time teacher, principal, assistant principal, or guidance counselor of any public or private elementary or secondary school and is engaged in the performance of his duties as such, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor and the sentence of such person upon conviction shall include a sentence of 15 days in jail, two days of which shall be a mandatory minimum term of confinement. However, if the offense is committed by use of a firearm or other weapon prohibited on school property pursuant to 18.2-308.1, the person shall serve a mandatory minimum sentence of confinement of six months.

E. As used in this section:

"Judge" means any justice or judge of a court of record of the Commonwealth including a judge designated under § 17.1-105, a judge under temporary recall under 17.1-106, or a judge pro tempore under 17.1-109, any member of the State Corporation Commission, or of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission, and any judge of a district court of the Commonwealth or any substitute judge of such district court.

"Law-enforcement officer" means any full-time or part-time employee of a police department or sheriff's office which is part of or administered by the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof, who is responsible for the prevention or detection of crime and the enforcement of the penal, traffic or highway laws of this Commonwealth, and any conservation officer of the Department of Conservation and Recreation commissioned pursuant to 10.1-115, and conservation police officers appointed pursuant to 29.1-200, and such officer also includes jail officers in local and regional correctional facilities, all deputy sheriffs, whether assigned to law-enforcement duties, court services or local jail responsibilities, auxiliary police officers appointed or provided for pursuant to 15.2-1731 and 15.2-1733 and auxiliary deputy sheriffs appointed pursuant to 15.2-1603.

"School security officer" means an individual who is employed by the local school board for the purpose of maintaining order and discipline, preventing crime, investigating violations of school board policies and detaining persons violating the law or school board policies on school property, a school bus or at a school-sponsored activity and who is responsible solely for ensuring the safety, security and welfare of all students, faculty and staff in the assigned school.

F. "Simple assault" or "assault and battery" shall not be construed to include the use of, by any teacher, teacher aide, principal, assistant principal, guidance counselor, school security officer, school bus driver or school bus aide, while acting in the course and scope of his official capacity, any of the following: (i) incidental, minor or reasonable physical contact or other actions designed to maintain order and control; (ii) reasonable and necessary force to quell a disturbance or remove a student from the scene of a disturbance that threatens physical injury to persons or damage to property; (iii) reasonable and necessary force to prevent a student from inflicting physical harm on himself; (iv) reasonable and necessary force for self-defense or the defense of others; or (v) reasonable and necessary force to obtain possession of weapons or other dangerous objects or controlled substances or associated paraphernalia that are upon the person of the student or within his control.

In determining whether a person was acting within the exceptions provided in this subsection, due deference shall be given to reasonable judgments that were made by a teacher, teacher aide, principal, assistant principal, guidance counselor, school security officer, school bus driver, or school bus aide at the time of the event.

(1975, cc. 14, 15; 1994, c. 658; 1997, c. 833; 1999, cc. 771, 1036; 2000, cc. 288, 682; 2001, c. 129; 2002, c. 817; 2004, cc. 420, 461; 2006, cc. 270, 709, 829.)”

A will shall be offered for probate in the circuit court in the county or city wherein the decedent has a known place of residence; if he has no such known place of residence, then in a county or city wherein any real estate lies that is devised or owned by the decedent; and if there is no such real estate, then in the county or city wherein he dies or a county or city wherein he has estate.

Where any person has become, either voluntarily or involuntarily, a patient in a nursing home, convalescent home, or similar institution due to advanced age or impaired health, the place of legal residence of the person shall be rebuttably presumed to be the same as it was before he became a patient.

Once a 9-1-1 call is received the appropriate agency is dispatched. Dispatchers must then follow the call through to its completion. This may include requests such as driver’s licenses inquiries by law enforcement or additional manpower for a fire. Dispatchers are tasked with accurately documenting all of the communications activities that are transmitted through the center.

With the volume of papers served by the Sheriff, it would be impossible for us to notify all parties after service has been made. However, the plaintiff may attach a self-addressed and stamped postcard if he wishes to be notified after service.

If any person break and enter the dwelling house of another in the nighttime with intent to commit a felony or any larceny therein, he shall be guilty of burglary, punishable as a Class 3 felony; provided, however, that if such person was armed with a deadly weapon at the time of such entry, he shall be guilty of a Class 2 felony.  (Code 1950, § 18.1-86; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.)