CODE OF VIRGINIA

RESULT OF ELECTIONS; DETERMINATION OF FORM OF GOVERNMENT (§ 15.2-3540)

The ballots shall be counted and returns made and canvassed as in other
elections, and the results certified by the electoral board to each of the
judges of the circuit courts having jurisdiction in the localities proposing to
be consolidated. If it appears by the report that a majority of the voters of
each locality voting on the question submitted are in favor of the consolidation
provided that no separate vote on the question shall be required in towns within
a county when such county proposes to consolidate in its entirety with a county
or city having a common boundary, the judge or judges shall enter such fact of
record in each such county and city and shall notify the Secretary of the
Commonwealth. Upon the day prescribed in the order for the consolidation
agreement to become effective, the localities shall be consolidated into a city
or into a city and one or more counties or into a single county as proposed in
the consolidation agreement.If the election offers to the voters a choice
between forms of government, the question shall be determined by a majority of
all the voters voting in such election and reported accordingly.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 15-226; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-1140; 1970, c. 751; 1975,
c. 214; 1978, c. 642; 1979, c. 85; 1997, c. 587.