CHAPTER 114

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 15-220 of the Code of 1950,
relating to consolidation of certain counties and cities, so
as to broaden the application thereof. rH124]

Approved March 8, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: |
1. That § 15-220 of the Code of 1950 be amended and re-
enacted as follows:

§ 15-220. Counties, cities and towns specified; alternative
consolidations.—By complying with the requirements and pro-
cedure hereinafter specified in this article, any one or more
counties having an area of less than seventy-five square miles
of high land, any county adjacent to a county having a density
of population in excess of two thousand per square mile, and
any city or town, where such county, city or town, as the case
may be, either adjoins or is adjacent to such county or to any
city having a population in excess of thirty thousand inhabitants,
may consolidate with such city having a population in excess
of thirty thousand into a single city, or into a single city and
one or more counties, and the remaining portions of such coun-
ties not so consolidated with such city may be consolidated with
each other or with adjoining or adjacent counties into one or
more counties, or any such counties and cities may be consoli-
dated into a single county or more than one county. * * * *