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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69468</law_id><section_number>15.2-305</section_number><catch_line>Changing from one form to another</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="15.2">Counties, Cities and Towns</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">General Provisions; Charters; Other Forms and Organization of Counties</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Optional Forms of County Government; General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A <span class="dictionary">county</span> may change from one optional form to another optional form, or to any other form of <span class="dictionary">county</span> government prescribed by Article VII of the Constitution, only by following the procedures set out in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Petition or resolution asking for referendum; notice; conduct of election" href="/15.2-301/">15.2-301</a>, subject to any limitations specified in Chapters 3 through 8 of this title.</p></section></text><history>1997, c. 587.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
