CHAPTER 542

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 2, as amended, of Chapter 379 of
the Acts of Assembly of 1946, approved March 28, 1946, the
section and act relating to subdivisions of land in certain
counties and approval of plats therefor, so as to provide for
additional matters in relation thereto.

[H 704]

Approved April 7, 1950

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, be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 2. Subdivision regulations.—(a) Such regulations may pro-
vide for the size, scale and other details of the plat to be recorded,
for the harmonious development of the county, for the coordina.
tion 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 grounds.

(b) Such regulations may require monuments of specific lype,
establishing street and property lines to be erected. and may in-
*~lude requirements as to the extent to which and the manner in
which new streets shall be graded, graveled or otherwise improved
and water, sewer and other utility mains, piping, connections or
other facilities shall be installed 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 pro-
vide for the tentative approval of the plat previous to such improve-
ments 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 an 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 governing 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 ap-
proval of plat shall be withdrawn and approved plat marked void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 in-
tention so to do. has been published once a week for two successive
weeks in some newspaper 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 submitted for approval
to the governing body or to such official or board including the
planning commission as the governing body in the regulations
designates.