Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, general or special, a town created under this chapter shall not return to its previous independent city status.

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Terms Used In Virginia Code 15.2-4113

  • City: means an independent incorporated community which became a city as provided by law before noon on July 1, 1971, or which has within defined boundaries a population of 5,000 or more and which has become a city as provided by law. See Virginia Code 1-208
  • Town: means any existing town or an incorporated community within one or more counties which became a town before noon, July one, nineteen hundred seventy-one, as provided by law or which has within defined boundaries a population of 1,000 or more and which has become a town as provided by law. See Virginia Code 15.2-102

1996, cc. 337, 349, § 15.1-965.22:1; 1997, c. 587.