CHAPTER 519

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-152.26 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to certain cases in which annexation shall not be decreed unless the
whole county be annexed.

[H 475]

Approved March 31, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15-152.26 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 15-152.26. Whenever, as the result of any annexation proceedings
the area remaining in a county would, after annexation of the territory
sought, be reduced below sixty square miles, excluding property owned by
the United States of America, or shall, otherwise, be insufficient in area,
population, or sources of revenue, adequately to support the county govern-
ment and schools, the annexation shall not be decreed unless the whole
county be annexed.

2. Anemergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.