                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ELECTION TO DETERMINE RETURN TO THE SECONDARY STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM (§ 33.2-344)

Upon the petition of qualified voters of any county that proposes to return its
roads to the secondary state highway system equal in number to at least 20
percent of the number counted in such county for presidential electors at the
last preceding presidential election or 250, whichever is more, the circuit
court of such county shall make an order requiring the judges of election on
such day as may be fixed in the order, but not less than 30 days after the date
of the order, to open a poll and take the sense of the qualified voters of the
county on the question of whether or not such county shall return to the
secondary state highway system. The qualifications of voters at each such
election shall be as provided by §§ 24.2-400 through 24.2-403.
		The ballots for use at any such election shall be printed to state the
question as follows:
		&#8220;Shall ____________________ county (the name of such county to be
inserted) return to the secondary state highway system for maintenance and
construction by the Commonwealth?
		[ ] Yes
		[ ] No&#8221;
		The ballots shall be printed, marked, and counted and returns made and
canvassed as in other elections and as provided in § 24.2-684. The results
shall be certified by the secretary of the appropriate electoral board to the
State Board of Elections, to the court ordering the election, and to such other
authority as may be proper to accomplish the purpose of the election. All other
proceedings in connection with any such election shall be in conformity with the
proceedings prescribed in § 11 of Chapter 415 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 33-54; 1970, c. 322, § 33.1-86; 2014, c. 805.