Chap. 286.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act requiring per-
mits to be obtained for the construction, repair or improvement of buildings
or structures in counties having a density of population ef more than 300 per
square mile, according to the United States census, approved February 26,
1926. [H B 264]

Approved March 21, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act requiring permits to be obtained for the construction,
repair or improvement of buildings or structures in counties having
a density of population of more than three hundred per square mile,
according to the United States census, approved February twenty-
sixth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Section 1. No person, firm or corporation shall, in any county
having a density of population of more than three hundred per square
mile, according to the United States census, commence the construc-
tion, repair or improvement of any building or structure permanently
annexed to the freehold, and to cost two hundred dollars or more,
until there shall have been first obtained from the commissioner of the
revenue of said county a permit in writing, signed by the said com-
missioner of the revenue, in which permit the kind and character of
the work thereby authorized, and the estimated cost thereof, shall be
described with reasonable certainty.

Section 2. The fee for each such permit shall be fifty cents, which
shall be paid to the commissioner of revenue by the person to whom
such permit 1s issued.

Section 3. Any person, firm or corporation violating this act shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, fined not less than five
dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force front its passage.