CHAPTER 369

An Act to amend and reenact § 4 of Chapter 879 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1946, approved March 28, 1946, Chapter 879 and amendments
thereto being continued in effect by § 15-795 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to subdivisions of land in certain counties and penalties for
certain offenses.

[H 614]

Approved March 31, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 4 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:

§ 4. Penalties —Any person who, being the owner or agent of the
owner of any land, affected by any regulations adopted hereunder, trans-
fers or sells or agrees to sell or negotiates to sell any land divided in
violation of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine
of not less than ten dollars and not more than two hundred and fifty
dollars, and each day after the first, during which such violation shall
continue, shall constitute a separate offense. * The description of such lot
or parcel by metes and bounds or otherwise in the instrument of transfer
or other document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not
exempt such person or the transaction from * the prescribed penalty. In
case of any violation of the provisions of this chapter or any provisions
of the regulations adopted as authorized in this chapter the governing
body, in addition to other remedies, may institute any appropriate action
or proceeding to prevent such violation or attempted violation, to restrain,
correct, or abate such violation or attempted violation, or to prevent any
act which would constitute such a violation.