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Any person meeting these requirements shall be eligible to vote in the referendum, but no person shall be required to be a qualified voter in any other respect. Any person who is not an individual shall vote by its authorized representative.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":268811,"text":"Each producer in the Commonwealth who produced 40,000 pounds of potatoes during the year next preceding the date of the referendum held pursuant to this article shall be eligible to vote in the referendum if he certifies to the required production. The certification shall be on forms approved by the Board. Any person meeting these requirements shall be eligible to vote in the referendum, but no person shall be required to be a qualified voter in any other respect. 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This law was first created in 1982. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 126 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 1982 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 2 times. 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. Those modifications are as follows: in 2008, chapter 860<\/a>; in 2012, chapters 803<\/a> and 835<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":194811,"object_type":"law","relational_id":74811,"identifier":"3.2-1808","token":"3.2\/II\/B\/18\/2\/3.2-1808","url":"\/3.2-1808\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/3.2-1808\/","token":"3.2\/II\/B\/18\/2\/3.2-1808","dublin_core":{"Title":"Persons eligible to vote","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 3.2-1808","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Each producer<\/span> in the Commonwealth who produced 40,000 pounds of potatoes<\/span> during the year next preceding the date of the referendum<\/span> held pursuant to this article shall be eligible to vote in the referendum<\/span> if he certifies to the required production. The certification shall be on forms approved by the Board<\/span>. Any person meeting these requirements shall be eligible to vote in the referendum<\/span>, but no person shall be required to be a qualified voter in any other respect. Any person who is not an individual shall vote by its authorized representative.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nPERSONS ELIGIBLE TO VOTE (\u00a7 3.2-1808)\n\nEach producer in the Commonwealth who produced 40,000 pounds of potatoes during\nthe year next preceding the date of the referendum held pursuant to this article\nshall be eligible to vote in the referendum if he certifies to the required\nproduction. The certification shall be on forms approved by the Board. Any\nperson meeting these requirements shall be eligible to vote in the referendum,\nbut no person shall be required to be a qualified voter in any other respect.\nAny person who is not an individual shall vote by its authorized representative.\n\nHISTORY: 1982, c. 126, \u00a7 3.1-684.24; 2008, c. 860; 2012, cc. 803, 835.","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}}