CHAPTER 409

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-220, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to consolidation of counties, cities and towns. CH 487]

Approved March 15, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15-220, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 15-220. By complying with the requirements and procedure here-
inafter specified in this article, any one or more counties having an area
of less than seventy-five square miles of highland, any county adjacent to
a county having a density of population in excess of two thousand per
square mile, * or any one or more cities or towns, or any of such counties,
cities or towns where such counties, cities or towns, as the case may be,
either adjoin or * are adjacent to such county or adjoin or are adjacent
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 counties 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 consolidated into a single county or more than one county.

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