CHAPTER 318
An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-572 of the Code of Virginia, relating

to the rearrangement, increase, diminution or change of magist
districts

[H 829]
Approved March 31, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. ; Ea § 15.1-572 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

8 15.1-572. Upon petition of the board of supervisors pursuant to a
resolution duly adopted or the petition of fifty qualified voters of a county
asking for a rearrangement of all the magisterial districts in the county
or for an increase or diminution in the number thereof or for a change
in the name of any district, or upon the petition of the like number of

ified voters in the district, or districts to be affected by the proposed

ge asking for a rearrangement of two or more contiguous magisterial
districts in a county, the circuit court of such county may, for good cause
shown, enter an order for the rearrangement of all the districts therein,
or for an increase or diminution in the number thereof, or for a change
in the names of any district in the one case, or for the rearrangement of
two or more contiguous districts in the other case; provided, there shall
not be in any one county less than three nor more than eleven magisterial
districts. No such order shall be made unless a copy of the petition shall
have been previously posted thirty days at the courthouse of such county
and at each voting place in any magisterial district or districts to be
affected by the proposed change. me