                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

VOTERS&#8217; PETITION REQUESTING AGREEMENT AND REFERENDUM (§ 15.2-5106)

The qualified voters of any locality whose governing body has not acted to
create an authority under § 15.2-5102 may file with the governing body of such
locality a petition asking the governing body to effect an agreement in
accordance with § 15.2-5102 with the localities named in the petition. Such
petition shall be signed by at least ten percent of the number of the
locality&#8217;s voters who voted in the last presidential election and in no
case be signed by fewer than fifty voters. The petition shall ask the governing
body to petition the circuit court for a referendum on the question of the
creation of the authority.
		If the governing body is unable, or for any reason fails, to perfect such
agreement within three months of the day the petition was filed with such
governing body, then the circuit court for the locality shall appoint a
committee of five representative citizens of the locality to act for and in lieu
of the governing body in perfecting the agreement and in petitioning for a
referendum. The agreement shall not take effect unless approved in the
referendum by a majority of the voters voting in the referendum.

HISTORY: 1972, c. 370, § 15.1-1244.1; 1975, c. 517; 1997, c. 587.