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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?991+ful+CHAP0701\">701<\/a> 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.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1471615,"object_type":"law","relational_id":369026,"identifier":"54.1-4303","token":"54.1\/V\/43\/54.1-4303","url":"\/54.1-4303\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/54.1-4303\/","token":"54.1\/V\/43\/54.1-4303","dublin_core":{"Title":"Local ordinances","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 54.1-4303","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Nothing in this chapter shall prevent any county, city or town in the Commonwealth from enacting an <span class=\"dictionary\">ordinance<\/span> regulating <span class=\"dictionary\">itinerant merchants<\/span>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nLOCAL ORDINANCES (\u00a7 54.1-4303)\n\nNothing in this chapter shall prevent any county, city or town in the\nCommonwealth from enacting an ordinance regulating itinerant merchants.\n\nHISTORY: 1999, c. 701.","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"}}