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This law was first created in 1997. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 587<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":57211,"section_number":"15.2-301","catch_line":"Petition or resolution asking for referendum; notice; conduct of election","order_by":null,"url":"\/15.2-301\/"}],"permalink":{"id":151409,"object_type":"law","relational_id":69468,"identifier":"15.2-305","token":"15.2\/I\/3\/15.2-305","url":"\/15.2-305\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-305\/","token":"15.2\/I\/3\/15.2-305","dublin_core":{"Title":"Changing from one form to another","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-305","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A county<\/span> may change from one optional form to another optional form, or to any other form of county<\/span> government prescribed by Article VII of the Constitution, only by following the procedures set out in \u00a7 15.2-301<\/a>, subject to any limitations specified in Chapters 3 through 8 of this title.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCHANGING FROM ONE FORM TO ANOTHER (\u00a7 15.2-305)\n\nA county may change from one optional form to another optional form, or to any\nother form of county government prescribed by Article VII of the Constitution,\nonly by following the procedures set out in \u00a7 15.2-301, subject to any\nlimitations specified in Chapters 3 through 8 of this title.\n\nHISTORY: 1997, c. 587.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}