CHAPTER 47

n Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-694 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to certain elections in certain counties; form of ballot; conduct of
election; election; terms and salaries of boards of supervisors in
certain counties.

[H 158]

Approved February 26, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

Pan § 15.1694 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
follows:

§ 15.1694. Whenever two hundred or more qualified voters in any
ch county shall petition the circuit court or the judge thereof in vaca-
mn for the purpose, such court or judge shall by order entered of record
quire the judges of election, on the day fixed in the order, not less than
urty days from the date of such order, to open a poll and take the sense
| the qualified voters of the county on the questions submitted as here.
after provided for. In the calling and holding of such election, the same
rocedure shall be followed as is provided in § 15.1-584, except that the
allot shall have written or printed thereon the following:

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

or

() Against
inns iw , In the event of such change, which form of government
opted?
[) Modified commission plan
or

() County manager plan
Question 8. In the event of such change, shall the governing board
% dected at large or by districts?
() At large
[| By districts
Voting shall be in accordance with the provisions of § 24-141.
e commissioners of election shall ascertain whether a majority of
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
he commission plan or the county manager plan, and whether the govern-
ing board shall be elected by the county at large or by districts and make
port thereof to the circuit court of the county or to the judge thereof
lt vacation, If it appears from such report that a majority of the qualified
ters of the county, voting on the question, are in favor of the change,
é cireut court, at its next term, shall enter of record such fact and
additional facts as to the form of county government adopted and as
pinaded the governing board shall be elected by the county at large or
y 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 * four thousand dollars per annum.