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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?051+ful+CHAP0864\">864<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?051+ful+CHAP0875\">875<\/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. 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 2008, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?081+ful+CHAP0860\">860<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":57963,"section_number":"3.2-1210","catch_line":"Questions to be printed on ballots","order_by":null,"url":"\/3.2-1210\/"},{"id":85871,"section_number":"3.2-1213","catch_line":"Referenda","order_by":null,"url":"\/3.2-1213\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":194429,"object_type":"law","relational_id":55962,"identifier":"3.2-1208","token":"3.2\/II\/B\/12\/3.2-1208","url":"\/3.2-1208\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/3.2-1208\/","token":"3.2\/II\/B\/12\/3.2-1208","dublin_core":{"Title":"Referendum on question of levying apple excise tax","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 3.2-1208","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The <span class=\"dictionary\">Board<\/span> shall authorize the holding of a <span class=\"dictionary\">referendum<\/span> as set forth in this article. 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The cost of conducting a referendum under this section shall be\npaid by the Virginia State Horticultural Society.\n\nHISTORY: 2005, cc. 864, 875, \u00a7 3.1-636.1; 2008, c. 860.","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}}