CHAPTER 336

An Act to amend and reenact § 2, as amended, of Chapter $79 of the
Acts of Assembly of 1946, approved March 28, 1946, which chapter
as amended was continued in effect by § 15-795 of the Code of
Virginia, the section and act relating to subdivision of land in certain
counties and approval of plats therefor, so as to provide for addi-
tional matters in relation thereto. CH 328]

Approved March 12, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 2, as amended, of Chapter 379 of the Acts of Assembly of
1946, approved March 28, 1946, which chapter as amended was continued
in effect by § 15-795 of the Code of Virginia, be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 2. Subdivision regulations—(a) Such regulations may provide
for the size, scale and other details of the plat to be recorded, for the
harmonious development of the county, for the coordination of streets
within the subdivision with other existing or planned streets or with
the master plan of the region in question, and may also provide for the
reservation of suitable and adequate sites for schools, parks and play

nds.

(b) Such regulations may require monuments of specific type, es-
tablishing street and property lines to be erected, and may include re-
quirements as to the extent to which and the manner in which * streets
shall be graded, graveled or otherwise improved and water, sewer and
other utility mains, piping, connections or other facilities shall be in-
stalled as a condition precedent to the approval of the plat. The regulations
or practice of the governing body, or their designated agents, provided
for in this act, may provide for the tentative approval of the plat previous
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to such improvements and installation; but any such tentative approval
shall not be entered on the plat. Such regulations may provide that, in
lieu of the completion of such work previous to the final approval of a
plat, the governing body of the county, or its designated agents, may
accept a bond, in any amount and with surety or conditions satisfactory
to such governing body, providing for and securing to the governing
body, the actual construction and installation of such improvements and
utilities within a period specified by such governing body, and the gov-
erning body is hereby granted the power to enforce such bond by all
appropriate legal and equitable remedies. Such regulations may provide
that upon final approval the plat shall be filed for recordation within
sixty days or approval of plat shall be withdrawn and approved plat
marked void and returned to approving official. Such regulations may
provide, in lieu of a bond, for the completion of such work previous to
the final approval of a plat.

(c) The governing body of any county or municipality therein shall
not adopt any regulation under this act until notice of intention so to do
has been published once a week for two successive weeks in some news-
paper published, or having general circulation, in such county. Such
notice shall specify the time and place at which persons affected may
appear before the governing body and present their views. Ten days
after the final notice has been so published any person affected may
appear before the governing body, personally or by counsel, and present
such views relative to the proposed regulations as he so desires. Similar
notice shall be given of amendments to any regulations issued under this
act and procedure thereon shall conform to the provisions of this para-

graph.

(d) Such regulations and amendments, if adopted, shall be adopted
by the governing body by ordinance. A certified copy of such regulations
and all amendments thereto shall be filed in the office of the county, or
municipality, designated in the regulations by any such governing body, and
in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county where the
land or any part lies, and in which clerk’s office deeds are admitted to
record. Any plat to be approved and recorded hereunder shall be sub-
mitted for approval to the governing body or to such official or board
including the planning commission as the governing body in the regula-
lations designates.