CHAPTER 257

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-860, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to procedures for the adoption of certain special forms
of county government and the compensation of the boards of super-
visors thereof.

(H 201]

Approved March 8, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15-360, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 15-360. Whenever two hundred or more qualified voters in any such
county shall petition the circuit court or the judge thereof in vacation for
the purpose, such court or judge shall by order entered of record require
the judges of election, on the day fixed in the order, not less than thirty
days from the date of such order, to open a poll and take the sense of the
qualified voters of the county on the questions submitted as hereinafter
provided for. In the calling and holding of such election, the same procedure
shall be followed as is provided in § 15-602 except that the ballot shall have
written or printed thereon the following:

snestion 1. Shall the county change its form of government?

(] For

C1 Against
Question 2. In the event of such change, which form of government
shall be adopted?
00 Modified commission plan

or
A County manager plan .
uestion 3. In the event of such change, shall the governing board

be elected at large or by districts?
OO At large

{J By districts

Voting shall be in accordance with the provisions of § 24-141.

The commissioners of election shall ascertain whether a majority of
the qualified voters of the county voting on the question are in favor of
changing its form of government and, if so, whether the form shall be the
commission plan or the county manager plan, and whether the governing
board shall be elected by the county at large or by districts and make report
thereof to the circuit court of the county or to the judge thereof in vacation.
If it appears from such report that a majority of the qualified voters of
the county, voting on the question, are in favor of the change, the circuit
court, at its next term, shall enter of record such fact and such additional
facts as to the form of county government adopted and as to whether the
governing board shall be elected by the county at large or by districts.

From and after the date on which the officers first elected under the
provisions of this chapter shall take office, the form of government of such
county shall be in accordance with the applicable provisions hereof.

When either of the forms of county government provided herein shall
be adopted for any county in the manner herein prescribed, the members of
the county board shall be elected at the next succeeding regular election
and shall take and hold office for a term of four years beginning on the
first day of January after their election. The salary of each member of the
board shall be twelve hundred dollars per annum; provided that in any
county having a population of more than one thousand per square mile
such salary shall be * three thousand dollars per annum.