Chap. 419.—An ACT to prohibit the recordation of plats for the sub-division
of land into lots showing on said plats streets and alleys, within, or with-
in fifteen miles trom, the limits of any city having a population of not
less than sixty thousand nor more than one hundred and ten thousand
inhabitants, except in conformity with the plan provided by such city.

{H B 365)
Approved March 27, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
no plat sub-dividing into streets, alleys, roads or lots, tracts of land
lying in any city or in any county within fifteen miles of the limits
of any city of not less than sixty thousand nor more than one hun-
dred and ten thousand inhabitants, or more, according to the last
regular United States census, shall be recorded by the clerk of any
court of this Commonwealth, until the dimensions and location of
any such streets, alleys, roads or lots, as indicated on said plat shall
be approved by the city engineer of said city, and also, if said land
or part thereof is in a county by the board of supervisors and by
the engineer of roads of the county (or if there be no engineer of
roads of such county, by the county surveyor of such county), or by
the judge of the circuit court of the county wherein said land or part
thereof hes; if said city engineer and the board of supervisors and
road engineer, or county surveyor, as the case may be, fail to agree or
to act within the hereinafter mentioned time after application there-
to by the party interested; provided, however, that this act shall ap-
ply only after such city shall place on file accessible to the public
in the city engineer’s office, a map covering the location in ques-
tion, officially approved by said city, showing in general a compre-
hensive plan for the future development and lay-out of its main
proposed thoroughfare or thoroughfares, which plan may be sub-
ject to reservations, conditions and exceptions as in the judgment
of the city is wise, including the right to make such reasonable, suit-
able modifications thereof as may be needful in the judgment of the
said city.

Any persons desiring to have a sub-division plat certified, as
herein provided, shall apply therefor and file a copy thereof with
the engineer or engineers as aforesaid, who are to act hereunder;
and if the same be not acted upon as herein provided, either favor-
ably or unfavorably, within thirty days after’the same is so filed,
then the judge of the court aforesaid, upon not less than ten days’
previous notice to said city by the applicant, shall have jurisdiction
of such application and dispose thereof, in his discretion, in ac-
cordance herewith, and on a hearing thereof, the judge shall enter
an order or record either approving or disapproving such plan as
being either in conformity with or not in conformity with said
plan of said city, which order shall state the facts and be a matter
of permanent record of said court. And upon an order of approval
so entered the clerk shall record the plat. Should the engineer or
engineers in the first instance disapprove the application, the ap-
plicant shall be entitled to an appeal to said court, under such rea-
sonable rules in relation thereto as the court shall allow.

In the event the property in question should lie wholly within
the city, then the circuit court of the city shall have jurisdiction in
the same manner as is herein provided for the said circuit court of

said county or counties, provided this act shall not apply to counties.
west of the Blue Ridge mountains.