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If the report of the secretary of the electoral board shows that a majority of the qualified voters of the town voting on the question submitted are in favor of the annulment, the judge shall enter such fact of record and shall notify the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and the annulment shall be effective on January 1 of the year following the year in which the order entering such fact of record is issued or, in the discretion of the court, on the second January 1 following the year in which issued. However, the court, upon joint petition of the governing bodies of the town and county or counties in which the town is located, may order the annulment effective on any other date or dates.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":254595,"text":"The ballots shall be counted and returns made and canvassed as in other elections and the results certified by the secretary of the electoral board to the judge of the circuit court. 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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":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":157525,"object_type":"law","relational_id":70556,"identifier":"15.2-3705","token":"15.2\/III\/37\/15.2-3705","url":"\/15.2-3705\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-3705\/","token":"15.2\/III\/37\/15.2-3705","dublin_core":{"Title":"Results of election","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-3705","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The ballots shall be counted and returns made and canvassed as in other elections and the results certified by the secretary of the electoral board to the judge<\/span> of the circuit<\/span> court<\/span>. If the report of the secretary of the electoral board shows that a majority of the qualified voters<\/span> of the town<\/span> voting on the question submitted are in favor of the annulment<\/span>, the judge<\/span> shall enter such fact<\/span> of record and shall notify the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and the annulment<\/span> shall be effective on January 1 of the year following the year in which the order<\/span> entering such fact<\/span> of record is issued or, in the discretion of the court<\/span>, on the second January 1 following the year in which issued. However, the court<\/span>, upon joint petition<\/span> of the governing bodies of the town<\/span> and county<\/span> or counties in which the town<\/span> is located, may order<\/span> the annulment<\/span> effective on any other date or dates.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nRESULTS OF ELECTION (\u00a7 15.2-3705)\n\nThe ballots shall be counted and returns made and canvassed as in other\nelections and the results certified by the secretary of the electoral board to\nthe judge of the circuit court. If the report of the secretary of the electoral\nboard shows that a majority of the qualified voters of the town voting on the\nquestion submitted are in favor of the annulment, the judge shall enter such\nfact of record and shall notify the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and the\nannulment shall be effective on January 1 of the year following the year in\nwhich the order entering such fact of record is issued or, in the discretion of\nthe court, on the second January 1 following the year in which issued. However,\nthe court, upon joint petition of the governing bodies of the town and county or\ncounties in which the town is located, may order the annulment effective on any\nother date or dates.\n\nHISTORY: 1992, c. 453, \u00a7 15.1-965.34; 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}}