                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CITIZENSHIP DAY AND CONSTITUTION WEEK (§ 2.2-3315)

The Governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting the seventeenth day of
September as Citizenship Day and September seventeen through twenty-three as
Constitution Week and recommending that they be observed by the Commonwealth
with appropriate exercises in the schools and otherwise so that the eventful day
on which the Constitution of the United States was formally adopted may forever
remain enshrined in the hearts and minds of all citizens and so that they may be
reminded on that date annually of the blessings of liberty that they enjoy by
the adoption of the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights and all other
amendments thereto.

HISTORY: 1974, c. 531, § 2.1-24.1; 2001, c. 844.