2025 SESSION
INTRODUCED
25101528D
HOUSE BILL NO. 1751
Offered January 8, 2025
Prefiled January 4, 2025
A BILL to amend and reenact 24.2-605 of the Code of Virginia, relating to elections; general provisions; loudspeakers prohibited at polls and certain other locations; penalty.
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Committee Referral Pending
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That 24.2-605 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
24.2-605. Loudspeakers prohibited at polls and certain other locations; penalty.
Notwithstanding any contrary statute or ordinance of a county, city, or town, except for school purposes or in an emergency, no loudspeaker shall be used within 300 feet of (i) a polling place on an election day or (ii) the office of the general registrar, a central absentee voter precinct, or a voter satellite office on election day and during hours when such facilities are open for the purpose of casting absentee ballots. Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.