                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

MERGER OF TWO PLANNING DISTRICT COMMISSIONS (§ 15.2-4221)

The commissions of any two planning districts and a majority of the governing
bodies of the localities comprising each district, upon finding that the
community of interest, ease of communications and transportation, and geographic
factors and natural boundaries among the localities of the two districts are
such that the best interest of the localities would be served, may by
resolutions concurrently adopted vote to merge into one district and request the
Department of Housing and Community Development to declare the districts so
merged. Upon such declaration, the commissions of the two districts shall be
merged into one commission. The commission of the new district thereupon shall
organize as provided in § 15.2-4203; however, nothing shall prevent the
commissions of the two districts which are to be merged from agreeing to the
terms of such organization prior to their vote to merge.

HISTORY: 1990, c. 722, § 15.1-1416.1; 1997, c. 587.