                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PETITIONS FILED WITH THE BOARD (§ 10.1-507)

Petitions to modify or create districts, or relocate or define boundaries of
existing districts, shall be initiated and filed with the Board for its approval
or disapproval by any of the following methods:

1. By petition of a majority of the directors of any or each district or by
petition from a majority of the governing body of any or each county or city.

2. By petition of a majority of the governing body of a county or city not
within an existing district, requesting to be included in an existing district
and concurred in by the district directors.

3. By petition of a majority of the governing body of a county or city or parts
thereof not included within an existing district, requesting that a new district
be created.

4. By petition, signed by a number of registered voters equal to twenty-five
percent of the vote cast in the last general election, who are residents of a
county or city not included within an existing district, requesting that a new
district be created, or requesting to be included within an existing district.
If the petition bears the signatures of the requisite number of registered
voters of a county or city, or two or more cities, then the petition shall be
deemed to be the joint petition of the particular combination of political
subdivisions named in the petition. If the petition deals in whole or in part
with a portion or portions of a political subdivision or subdivisions, then the
number of signatures necessary for each portion of a political subdivision shall
be the same as if the whole political subdivision were involved in the petition,
and may come from the political subdivision at large.

HISTORY: 1970, c. 480, § 21-12.2; 1988, c. 891.