                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

POPULATION; INHABITANTS (§ 1-235)

&#8220;Population&#8221; or &#8220;inhabitants&#8221; means with reference to
any county, city, town, political subdivision of the Commonwealth or any
combination thereof, the natural persons in such county, city, town, political
subdivision or combination as shown by the unadjusted United States decennial
census last preceding the time at which any provision dependent upon population
is being applied or the time as of which it is being construed. Where two or
more political subdivisions are consolidated, the population of the consolidated
county or city or other political subdivision shall be the combined population
of the consolidating subdivisions, under the last preceding unadjusted United
States decennial census.

HISTORY: 1942, p. 668; Michie Code 1942, § 5a; Code 1950, § 1-13; 1950, p. 23,
§ 1-13.22; 1954, c. 295, § 1-13.10:1; 1958, c. 330; 1966, c. 78; 2005, c. 839.