CHAPTER 260

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 15-67 of the Code of 1950, relating
to incorporation of towns.
[H 470]
Approved April 3, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
|. That § 15-67 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 15-67. Proof required and order for incorporation.—The
ourt shall be satisfied that:
(1) It will be to the interest of the inhabitants of the town;

(2) The prayer of the petition is reasonable;

(3) The general good of the community will be promoted;

(4) The number of inhabitants of the town exceeds * three
hundred and does not exceed five thousand; and

(5) The area of land designed to be embraced within the town
is not excessive.

Such court, or the judge thereof in vacation shall by an order
reciting the substance of the petition and the due publication
thereof, that it is to the best interest of the inhabitants of the
locality, that the general good of the community will be promoted
by the incorporation of the town and that the number of inhabi-
tants exceeds * three hundred and does not exceed five thousand,
order and decree and enter upon its common law order book that
such town be, and the same is hereby, incorporated as a town by
the name and style of “The town of ............... (naming it)”,
and designating in such order the metes and bounds thereof.
Thereafter the inhabitants within such bounds shall be a body,
politic and corporate, with all the powers, privileges and duties
conferred upon and appertaining to towns under the general law.
No town shall be incorporated hereafter unless it contain at least
the population required by this section as amended.

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