Resolve a Virginia jurisdiction from a name, alias, or FIPS code, or from a lon/lat point by point-in-polygon against official boundaries. Use FIRST whenever a place is named or a coordinate is given: Virginia has independent cities that are not inside the counties sharing their names (Fairfax City is not in Fairfax County), and towns that sit inside a county so BOTH governments apply — read layered_authorities, do not assume the resolved leaf answers everything. Pass query OR lon/lat, never both. If the result carries candidates with requires_user_choice, present them to the user and never pick one yourself. Not for street addresses yet (no geocoding in this release).

Find parcel records in a Virginia jurisdiction by parcel PIN or by a lon/lat point. Pass the user's jurisdiction string as given — resolution and its ambiguities are handled here, and candidate lists must go back to the user unchosen. Results carry provenance and coverage; an empty result with coverage.registry='none' means Commonwealth has no source there, not that no parcel exists. Not for street addresses yet (no geocoding in this release).

Find the zoning district(s) for a parcel PIN or lon/lat point in a Virginia jurisdiction. Screening only: results state the GIS layer's answer, never a legal determination — repeat the screening_only warning to the user. When two official sources are registered, both are queried and any disagreement is shown, not reconciled. Use geo.find_parcel first when you need the parcel record itself.

Get a Virginia jurisdiction's official boundary: FIPS, GNIS, area, jurisdiction type, bounding box, and the publisher's own centroid. Use to confirm WHICH government's territory is meant and how big it is. Independent cities are returned as their own territory, never as part of the county sharing their name. Screening geometry only — it is generalized and the publisher disclaims survey use, so never decide from it which side of a boundary an address sits on. Pass detail='full' for vertices. Not a containment test: to find which jurisdiction covers a point, use registry.resolve_jurisdiction with lon/lat.

Get the text of a Code of Virginia section by its citation (e.g. '1-500', '18.2-57'). Direct lookup only — this is not a full-text search; the caller must already know or have found the section number. Results carry the section's own citation history exactly as published, with a link to the live page. A missing section (repealed, renumbered, or never existed) returns found=False, not an error.