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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":false,"permalink":{"id":151413,"object_type":"law","relational_id":70975,"identifier":"15.2-306","token":"15.2\/I\/3\/15.2-306","url":"\/15.2-306\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-306\/","token":"15.2\/I\/3\/15.2-306","dublin_core":{"Title":"Limitation as to frequency of elections","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-306","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

If any election has been held in a county<\/span> to determine whether such county<\/span> shall adopt a form of county<\/span> government provided for in Chapters 4 through 8 of this title, or if any election has been held in a county<\/span> which has adopted such form of county<\/span> government to determine whether such county<\/span> shall change to another form of county<\/span> government or to determine whether such county<\/span> shall change to some other form of county<\/span> government provided for by Article VII of the Constitution of Virginia and the other provisions of general law<\/span> of the Commonwealth, no further election of the nature referred to in this section shall be held in the county<\/span> within three years thereafter.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nLIMITATION AS TO FREQUENCY OF ELECTIONS (\u00a7 15.2-306)\n\nIf any election has been held in a county to determine whether such county shall\nadopt a form of county government provided for in Chapters 4 through 8 of this\ntitle, or if any election has been held in a county which has adopted such form\nof county government to determine whether such county shall change to another\nform of county government or to determine whether such county shall change to\nsome other form of county government provided for by Article VII of the\nConstitution of Virginia and the other provisions of general law of the\nCommonwealth, no further election of the nature referred to in this section\nshall be held in the county within three years thereafter.\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}}