CHAPTER 185

An Act to amend and reenact § 24-45, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to election districts in cities. CH 323]

Approved March 6, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 24-45, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 24-45. The council of a city shall establish for each ward, or for
the city at large, if there be no wards, as many election districts as it may
deem necessary and a voting place in each district, except in cities in
which officers are elected by wards the council in its discretion may estab-
lish election districts, the location of which may be within two or more
wards. Such districts, except in a city having a population of more than
twenty thousand but less than thirty thousand inhabitants, shall be estab-
lished so that there shall not be less than one election district for every one
thousand voters or fractional part thereof above five hundred. The council
shall prescribe and cause to be published the boundaries of the districts.
It may alter the boundaries of any such election district, and rearrange,
increase, or diminish the number thereof, and change the voting places
or establish others therein, not to exceed, however, one voting place for
each election district. No change shall be made in any of the boundaries
or voting places within thirty days next preceding any general election.

An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.