CHAPTER 49

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
15-3860.1 providing for certain referenda in certain counties.
[S 64]

Approved February 18, 1952
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
15-360.1, as follows:

§ 15-360.1. If on or before the fifteenth day of July of any year in
which such referendum is provided for by law a petition signed by two
hundred or more qualified voters of the county be filed with the circuit court
or judge thereof in vacation of any county having the form of government
provided for in Article 3 of this chapter, asking that a referendum be
held on any question upon which a referendum is provided for by any
applicable statute, then such court or judge shall on or before the first day
of August of such year issue and enter of record an order requiring the
county election officials to open the polls at the regular election to be held
in November of such year on the question stated in such statute. If the
statute providing for such referendum shall authorize or require the same
to be held at a special election then the petition hereinabove referred to
shall be signed by one thousand or more qualified voters of the county and
the court or judge shall within fifteen days of the date such petition is filed
enter an order requiring the election officials to open the polls and take
the sense of the qualified voters of the county on a date fixed in his order,
which shall be not less than forty-five nor more than ninety days after the
filing of the petition. The clerk of the county shall cause a notice of such
election to be published in some newspaper published or having general
circulation in the county once a week for three successive weeks, and shall
post a copy of such notice at the door of the court house of such county.
The election shall be held in accordance with § 24-141 of the Code of
Virginia.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.