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HOUSE BILL NO. 2902 Offered January 21, 2005 A BILL to amend and reenact § 10.1-619 of the Code of Virginia, relating to watershed improvement districts. ---------- Patron-- McDougle ---------- Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 10.1-619 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 10.1-619. Consideration of results of referendum; simple majority vote required.

The results of the referendum shall be considered by the district directors in determining whether the operation of the proposed watershed improvement district is administratively practicable and feasible. The district directors shall not be authorized to determine that operation of the proposed watershed improvement district is administratively practicable and feasible unless at least two-thirds a simple majority of the votes cast in the referendum, which two-thirds vote shall also represent ownership of at least two-thirds of the land in the proposed district, have been cast in favor of the creation of the watershed improvement district.