                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CHARTER ELECTIONS; SUBSEQUENT PROCEDURE; PROCEDURE WHEN BILL NOT INTRODUCED OR
FAILS TO PASS IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY (§ 15.2-201)

A locality may provide for holding an election to be conducted as provided in §
24.2-681 et seq. of Title 24.2 to determine if the voters of the locality desire
that it request the General Assembly to grant to the locality a new charter or
to amend its existing charter. At least seven days prior to the holding of such
election, public notice shall be given in accordance with § 15.2-1427.
		If a majority of the voters voting in such election vote in favor of such
request, the locality shall transmit two certified copies of the results of such
election together with the publisher&#8217;s affidavit and the new charter or
the amendments to the existing charter, to one or more members of the General
Assembly representing such locality for introduction as a bill in the succeeding
session of the General Assembly.
		If a bill incorporating such charter or amendments is not introduced at the
succeeding session of the General Assembly, the approval of the voters for such
charter or amendments shall be void. If, at such session, members of the General
Assembly fail to enact or pass by indefinitely and do not carry over such a bill
incorporating such charter or amendments, the charter or amendments shall again
be presented to the voters for their approval or submitted to a public hearing
pursuant to § 15.2-202 before reintroduction in the General Assembly.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 15-65.2; 1958, c. 329; 1962, cc. 1, 623, § 15.1-834;
1979, c. 297; 1985, c. 387; 1997, c. 587; 2024, cc. 225, 242.