Statutes > Virginia Statutes > Title 15.2 - COUNTIES, CITIES AND TOWNS. > Chapter 32 - Boundary Changes of Towns and Cities (15.2-3200 thru 15.2-3245) > 15.2-3228 - County not to be reduced to insufficient area, population or sources of revenue.

15.2-3228 - County not to be reduced to insufficient area, population or sources of revenue.

§ 15.2-3228. County not to be reduced to insufficient area, population orsources of revenue.

If, as the result of an annexation, the area remaining in a county (i) wouldbe reduced below sixty square miles, excluding property owned by the UnitedStates of America, or (ii) would otherwise be insufficient in area,population, or sources of revenue to adequately support the county governmentand schools, then the annexation shall not be decreed unless the whole countyis annexed.

(Code 1950, § 15-152.26; 1952, c. 328; 1960, c. 519; 1962, c. 623, §15.1-1056; 1997, c. 587.)