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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 <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?971+ful+CHAP0587\">587<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":157553,"object_type":"law","relational_id":62623,"identifier":"15.2-3712","token":"15.2\/III\/37\/15.2-3712","url":"\/15.2-3712\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-3712\/","token":"15.2\/III\/37\/15.2-3712","dublin_core":{"Title":"Repeal of charter","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-3712","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>After a <span class=\"dictionary\">town<\/span> charter has been annulled in accordance with this chapter, the local <span class=\"dictionary\">governing body<\/span> of the <span class=\"dictionary\">county<\/span> or counties in which the <span class=\"dictionary\">town<\/span> was located shall make a request to a state legislator representing that <span class=\"dictionary\">county<\/span> that the General Assembly repeal the <span class=\"dictionary\">town<\/span> charter at the next legislative session.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nREPEAL OF CHARTER (\u00a7 15.2-3712)\n\nAfter a town charter has been annulled in accordance with this chapter, the\nlocal governing body of the county or counties in which the town was located\nshall make a request to a state legislator representing that county that the\nGeneral Assembly repeal the town charter at the next legislative session.\n\nHISTORY: 1992, c. 453, \u00a7 15.1-965.41; 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}}