An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
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Volume | 1946 |
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Law Number | 284 |
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Chap. 284.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 144 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to increasing, diminishing and abolishing voting districts.
[H B 60]
Approved March 26, 1946
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That section one hundred forty-four of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:
Section 144. How number increased or diminished, abandoned
or abolished, or boundaries altered, or name changed.—Upon the peti-
tion of twenty qualified voters of a magisterial district of a county, or
upon petition of the governing body of any county, the circuit court of
the county may, in term time or in vacation, in its discretion, change the
name of any election district therein, alter the boundaries of any elec-
tion district therein, and re-arrange, increase or diminish the number
thereof, or abandon or abolish any election district or voting place there-
in, and it may change the voting places, or establish others therein;
provided that no election district shall hereafter be established, or bound-
aries altered, re-arranged, or changed in any magisterial district of a
county upon the petition of such qualified voters, unless each of the
twenty qualified petitioning voters actually reside and separately and in-
dividually hold in fee simple real estate situated within the boundaries
of the election district sought to be established, altered, re-arranged.
changed, increased, decreased, abandoned or abolished. Provided that
if in any election district or voting place therein there be not twenty
qualified voters within the bound of the election district or voting place
sought to be abandoned or abolished then the petition, if filed by quali-
fied voters, shall be signed by a majority of the qualified voters of the
election district. Provided further that if in any such district or voting
place there be not more than thirty qualified voters as shown by the
books of the registrar, the court or judge may abolish the district or
voting place upon petition of the governing body of the county. When
an order is entered under this section, changing the name of an election
district, or re-arranging, increasing or diminishing the number of elec-
tion districts or abandoning or abolishing any election district or voting
place in a magisterial district, it shall be the duty of the court in its order
to designate the new election district or districts by proper and well-
defined boundaries. A copy of the order shall be posted, without delay
at the courthouse of the county, also at the voting place of an election
district the name of which has been changed, and at each new voting
place established, and at any former voting place which is affected by
the change; but no change shall be made in the name of any election
district, or in any of the boundaries or voting places, within thirty days
next preceding any general election, nor until notice has been posted for
thirty days at the front door of the courthouse and at each voting place
in each election district to be affected by the change.
The governing body of each county shall provide funds to enable the
electoral board to make provision at each voting place in such county
for an adequate place or building in which elections may be held and
conducted.