                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

AUTHORITY TO EQUIP AND MAINTAIN TELEVISION TRANSMISSION AND RELAY FACILITIES (§
15.2-1224)

A. Any county may equip and maintain television transmission and relay
facilities in areas which are so remote from regular transmission points of
large television stations that television reception is impossible without
special equipment and in which adequate, economical and proper television is not
available by private sources, if a majority of the voters voting in a referendum
held pursuant to subsection B vote in favor thereof.

B. If on or before the fifteenth day of July in any year a petition signed by
two hundred or more qualified voters of a county is filed with the circuit court
of such county asking that a referendum be held on the question set forth in
this subsection, then such court shall, on or before the fifteenth day of August
of such year, issue an order requiring the county election officials to open the
polls at the regular election to be held in November of each year on the
following question:
			Shall the governing body be authorized to equip and maintain television
transmission and relay facilities?
			[ ] Yes
			[ ] No
			The election shall conform in all respects with the requirements of general
law.

HISTORY: 1970, c. 139, § 15.1-526.1; 1975, c. 517; 1997, c. 587.