§ 33.1-86. Election to determine return
The circuit court of any such county, or the judge thereof in vacation, shall, upon the petition of qualified voters of the county equal in number to at least twenty per centum of the number counted in such county for presidential electors at the last preceding presidential election, but in no event less than 250, 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 entry thereof, 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 come back within such secondary system of state highways. The qualifications of voters at each such election shall be as provided by §§ 24.2-400 through 24.2-403.
The form of ballot for use in any such election shall be as follows:
"Shall .................... county (the name of such county to be inserted)
come back within the secondary system of state highways for maintenance and
construction by the State?
Yes
No"
Each qualified voter, who shall approve the coming back within the secondary system of state highways shall express such approval by striking out the word "No," and each voter who shall disapprove the same shall express his disapproval by striking out the word "Yes." 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 1932, approved March 31, 1932.
(Code 1950, § 33-54; 1970, c. 322.)
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