Chap. 242.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 25 of an act approved March
18, 1926, entitled an act to authorize the councils, or other governing bodies of
cities and towns of the Commonwealth, to divide the municipal area into one or
more districts, and in such districts to regulate the use of land and of buildings
or other structures and the height thereof, and also to establish building lines
and to regulate and restrict the construction and location of buildings and other
structures, and to repeal an act entitled an act to authorize the councils or other
governing bodies of cities of the Commonwealth to divide the municipal area
into one or more districts, and in such districts to regulate the use of land and
of buildings or other structures, and the height thereof, and, also to establish
building lines and to regulate and restrict the construction and location of build-
ings and other structures, approved February 17, 1922, in relation to the gradual
elimination of uses of land and buildings that do not conform to such regulations
and restrictions. [H B 201]

Approved March 18, 1942

I. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-five of an act approved March eighteenth, nineteen hundred and
twenty-six, entitled an act to authorize the councils, or other governing
bodies of cities and towns of the Commonwealth, to divide the municipal
area into one or more districts, and in such districts to regulate the use of
land and of buildings or other structures and the height thereof, and also
to establish building lines and to regulate and restrict the construction
and location of buildings and other structures, and to repeal an act
entitled an act to authorize the councils or other governing bodies of cities
of the Commonwealth to divide the municipal area into one or more
districts, and in such districts to regulate the use of land and of buildings
or other structures, and the height thereof, and, also to establish building
lines and to regulate and restrict the construction and location of build-
ings and other structures, approved February seventeenth, nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

25. That an act entitled an act to authorize the councils or other
governing bodies of cities of the Commonwealth to divide the municipal
area into one or more districts, and in such districts to regulate the use
of land and of buildings or other structures, and the height thereof, and
also to establish building lines and to regulate and restrict the construc-
tion and location of buildings and other structures, approved February
seventeenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be and the same is hereby
repealed.

Nothing in this act contained shall be construed as intended to
authorize the impairment of any vested right; provided, however, that
reasonable regulations may be adopted by councils or other governing
bodies of cities and towns of the Commonwealth for the gradual elimina-
tion of uses of land and buildings that do not conform to such regulations
and restrictions.