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1974. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 531 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1974 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2001, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?011+ful+CHAP0844\">844<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1403345,"object_type":"law","relational_id":352932,"identifier":"2.2-3315","token":"2.2\/II\/A\/33\/2.2-3315","url":"\/2.2-3315\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/2.2-3315\/","token":"2.2\/II\/A\/33\/2.2-3315","dublin_core":{"Title":"Citizenship Day and Constitution Week","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 2.2-3315","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The Governor shall annually <span class=\"dictionary\">issue<\/span> a proclamation setting the seventeenth day of September as Citizenship Day and September seventeen through twenty-three as Constitution Week and recommending that they be observed by the Commonwealth with appropriate exercises in the schools and otherwise so that the eventful day on which the Constitution of the United States was formally adopted may forever remain enshrined in the hearts and minds of all citizens and so that they may be reminded on that date annually of the blessings of liberty that they enjoy by the adoption of the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights and all other amendments thereto.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCITIZENSHIP DAY AND CONSTITUTION WEEK (\u00a7 2.2-3315)\n\nThe Governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting the seventeenth day of\nSeptember as Citizenship Day and September seventeen through twenty-three as\nConstitution Week and recommending that they be observed by the Commonwealth\nwith appropriate exercises in the schools and otherwise so that the eventful day\non which the Constitution of the United States was formally adopted may forever\nremain enshrined in the hearts and minds of all citizens and so that they may be\nreminded on that date annually of the blessings of liberty that they enjoy by\nthe adoption of the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights and all other\namendments thereto.\n\nHISTORY: 1974, c. 531, \u00a7 2.1-24.1; 2001, c. 844.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}