                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REQUEST FOR REFERENDUM FILED WITH COURT; ORDER FOR ELECTION; NOTICE (§
15.2-2610)

If voter approval of any bond issue by a locality is required by the
Constitution of Virginia or this chapter or any charter provision, a copy of the
resolution or ordinance adopted by the governing body of the locality, certified
by the clerk of the governing body, requesting that a referendum on the question
of the issuance of the bonds be held, shall be filed with the circuit court for
the locality or in the case of a town the circuit court for the county in which
the town is located. The circuit court shall order a special election, in
accordance with § 24.2-681 et seq., requiring the election officers of the
locality on the day fixed in the order to open the polls and take the sense of
the voters of the locality on the question of contracting the debt and issuing
bonds for the purpose or purposes set forth in the resolution or ordinance. When
any town is situated partly in two or more counties, the certified copy of the
resolution or ordinance may be presented to the circuit court for any of the
counties and the court shall order an election to be held in the town in
accordance with the provisions of §§ 24.2-601 and 24.2-681 et seq. Notice of
the election in the form prescribed by the court shall be published at least
once but not less than seven days before the election in a newspaper published
or having general circulation in the locality.
		Where voter approval is required by the Constitution of Virginia, this chapter
or any charter provision, a locality may, at its option, provide in the
ordinance or resolution that any two or more purposes and amounts of the bonds
proposed to be issued for such purposes be combined into a single question for
the election and referred to as &#8220;capital improvement bonds&#8221; in an
aggregate principal amount equal to the sum of the amounts for the purposes so
combined.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 15-666.25, 15-666.30; 1958, c. 640; 1962, c. 623, §§
15.1-182, 15.1-187; 1968, c. 579; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 224; 1975, c. 517; 1982,
c. 181; 1991, c. 668, § 15.1-227.12; 1997, c. 587; 2024, cc. 225, 242.