15.2-1224 - Authority to equip and maintain television transmission and relay facilities.
§ 15.2-1224. Authority to equip and maintain television transmission andrelay facilities.
A. Any county may equip and maintain television transmission and relayfacilities in areas which are so remote from regular transmission points oflarge television stations that television reception is impossible withoutspecial equipment and in which adequate, economical and proper television isnot available by private sources, if a majority of the voters voting in areferendum held pursuant to subsection B vote in favor thereof.
B. If on or before the fifteenth day of July in any year a petition signed bytwo hundred or more qualified voters of a county is filed with the circuitcourt of such county asking that a referendum be held on the question setforth in this subsection, then such court shall, on or before the fifteenthday of August of such year, issue an order requiring the county electionofficials to open the polls at the regular election to be held in November ofeach year on the following question:
Shall the governing body be authorized to equip and maintain televisiontransmission and relay facilities?
[] Yes
[] No
The election shall conform in all respects with the requirements of generallaw.
(1970, c. 139, § 15.1-526.1; 1975, c. 517; 1997, c. 587.)