Virginia Code 15.2-1224: Authority to equip and maintain television transmission and relay facilities.
A. Any county may equip and maintain television transmission and relay facilities in areas which are so remote from regular transmission points of large television stations that television reception is impossible without special equipment and in which adequate, economical and proper television is not available by private sources, if a majority of the voters voting in a referendum held pursuant to subsection B vote in favor thereof.
Terms Used In Virginia Code 15.2-1224
- County: means any existing county or such unit hereafter created. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
- Governing body: means the board of supervisors of a county, council of a city, or council of a town, as the context may require. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
B. If on or before the fifteenth day of July in any year a petition signed by two hundred or more qualified voters of a county is filed with the circuit court of such county asking that a referendum be held on the question set forth in this subsection, then such court shall, on or before the fifteenth day of August of such year, issue an order requiring the county election officials to open the polls at the regular election to be held in November of each year on the following question:
Shall the governing body be authorized to equip and maintain television transmission and relay facilities?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
The election shall conform in all respects with the requirements of general law.
1970, c. 139, § 15.1-526.1; 1975, c. 517; 1997, c. 587.