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This law was first created in 1992. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 453 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. Unfortunately, the 1992 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1997, chapter 587<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":66489,"section_number":"15.2-3703","catch_line":"Notice of motion; service and publication; docketing","order_by":null,"url":"\/15.2-3703\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":61104,"section_number":"15.2-3701","catch_line":"Agreement required","order_by":null,"url":"\/15.2-3701\/"}],"permalink":{"id":157513,"object_type":"law","relational_id":73165,"identifier":"15.2-3702","token":"15.2\/III\/37\/15.2-3702","url":"\/15.2-3702\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-3702\/","token":"15.2\/III\/37\/15.2-3702","dublin_core":{"Title":"Ordinance required","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-3702","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

After the agreement required by \u00a7 15.2-3701<\/a> has been reached, the town<\/span> council<\/span> may, by ordinance<\/span> passed by a recorded majority vote of all the members thereof, petition<\/span> the circuit<\/span> court<\/span> for the county<\/span> or counties in which the town<\/span> is located for an order<\/span> requiring a referendum<\/span> on the question of whether the town<\/span> charter shall be annulled and repealed.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nORDINANCE REQUIRED (\u00a7 15.2-3702)\n\nAfter the agreement required by \u00a7 15.2-3701 has been reached, the town council\nmay, by ordinance passed by a recorded majority vote of all the members thereof,\npetition the circuit court for the county or counties in which the town is\nlocated for an order requiring a referendum on the question of whether the town\ncharter shall be annulled and repealed.\n\nHISTORY: 1992, c. 453, \u00a7 15.1-965.30; 1997, c.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}}