Chap. 336.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2773-n of the Code of
Virginia, relating to elections on the question of adopting certain forms
of county government, and the election and salaries of members of the
county boards in counties adopting any such form of government. [H B 204]

Approved March 31, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly ot Virginia, That sec-
tion twenty-seven hundred and seventy-three-n of the Code of Vir-
ginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2773-n. Whenever two hundred or more qualified voters
in any such county shall petition the circuit court or the judge thereot
in vacation for said purpose, said court or judge shall by order en-
tered of record require the judges of election, on the day fixed in saic
order, not less than thirty days from the date of such order, to oper
a poll and take the sense of the qualified voters of the county on the
questions submitted as hereinafter provided for. In the calling anc
holding of said elections, the same procedure shall be followed as 1:
provided in section twenty-seven hundred and thirty-nine of the Code
except that the ballot shall have written or printed thereon the follow
ing :

Question One. Shall the county change its form of government

FOR

AGAINST
Question Two. In the event of such change, which form of
government shall be adopted? :

-MODIFIED COMMISSION PLAN

or
COUNTY MANAGER PLAN
(Strike out one)

Question Three. In the event of such change, shall the governing
board be elected at large or by districts?

AT LARGE
BY DISTRICTS

(Strike out one)

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 this act.

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 six hundred dollars per annum
until July first, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, after which date
such salary shall be twelve hundred dollars per annum.