CODE OF VIRGINIA

EFFECTIVE DATE OF OTHER REDISTRICTING MEASURES; ELECTIONS FOLLOWING ANNEXATION
(§ 24.2-312)

A. Any redistricting, other than the decennial redistricting, of any county,
city, or town shall be effective at midnight December 31 of the year in which
the redistricting occurs.

B. Members of county, city, and town governing bodies in office when any such
redistricting measure is adopted shall complete their terms of office. The
elections for their successors shall be held at the general election next
preceding the expiration of the terms of office of the incumbent members and
shall be conducted on the basis of the districts set out in the measures to
accomplish the redistricting.

C. When a county has been redistricted as a result of annexation and the
redistricting occurs in the year of a regularly scheduled November general
election for members of the county’s board of supervisors, the November
general election shall be conducted from the newly established districts so long
as the redistricting measure has been adopted prior to March 15 of the year of
the election.

D. When a city or town has been redistricted as a result of annexation and the
redistricting occurs prior to a regularly scheduled May general election for
members of the city’s or town’s governing body, the May general
election shall be conducted from the newly established districts so long as the
redistricting measure has been adopted prior to the November 15 immediately
preceding the election.

HISTORY: 1990, c. 500, § 24.1-17.3; 1993, c. 641; 1995, c. 249.