COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA

Present: Judges Baker, Willis and Overton Argued at Norfolk, Virginia

DENISE V. SIEGFELDT MEMORANDUM OPINION * BY v. Record No. 2270-95-1 JUDGE NELSON T. OVERTON JUNE 11, 1996 VIRGINIA EMPLOYMENT COMMISSION

FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF HAMPTON Walter J. Ford, Judge Denise V. Siegfeldt, pro se.

Cheryl A. Wilkerson, Assistant Attorney General (James S. Gilmore, III, Attorney General; Lisa J. Rowley, Assistant Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Denise V. Siegfeldt petitioned for a judicial review of a decision from the Virginia Employment Commission. Because her petition did not name a party required by the statute and was not served within a reasonable time, the circuit court dismissed the petition. Siegfeldt appeals from this order. We affirm.

"When the legislature has prescribed limitations within which the right of appeal may be exercised, such limitations are exclusive, and the court cannot modify or enlarge them without express statutory authority." Blankenship v. Virginia Unemployment Compensation Comm'n, 177 Va. 250, 254, 13 S.E.2d 409, 411 (1941). Upon review of the record, we find no reversible error in the circuit court judge's ruling.

* Pursuant to Code § 17-116.010 this opinion is not designated for publication.

Affirmed.

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