Va. Code Ann. § 2.2-3315
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Citizenship Day and Constitution Week
Official statutory text
The Governor shall annually issue 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.
1974, c. 531, § 2.1-24.1; 2001, c. 844 .
1974, c. 531, § 2.1-24.1; 2001, c. 844 .
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