CHAPTER 688

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-825 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to boards of zoning appeals in cities and towns. rH 810]

Approved April 4, 1952 -

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15-825, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted, as follows:

§ 15-825. Such local hustings or corporation court of a city or, if
it has no such court, the circuit court having jurisdiction in such city
and the circuit court of the county wherein a town or any part thereof may
be located may provide for the appointment of a board of zoning appeals
and in the regulations and restrictions adopted pursuant to the authority
of this article may provide that the board of zoning appeals may, in
appropriate cases and subject to appropriate conditions and safeguards,
vary the application of terms of the ordinance in harmony with its general
purpose and intent and in accordance with general or specific rules therein
contained. In lieu of appointing a board of zoning appeals for a town as
provided in this section, the council of such town may if it so desires
request the board of supervisors of the county in which the town is
located to instruct the county board of zoning appeals to serve also as
the board of zoning appeals for such town; and if the board of supervisors
Is agreeable to such request it may so instruct its county board of zoning
appeals; in which the county board of zoning appeals shall serve as the
board of zoning appeals of such town. In the performance of its duties
as the board of zoning appeals of such town it shall be governed by the
provision “4 this article.

, Appeals may be taken from the action of any board of zoning appeals
established under the provisions of this article or under the ‘provisions
of a charter within thirty days after final action by said board to the
court provided in the charter of such city for such appeals and if none is
so provided then to the hustings or corporation court of such city and
af. there be none, then to the circuit court having jurisdiction in the area.
The trial on appeal shall be a trial de novo. Appeals to the Supreme Court
of Appeals, as in other civil cases may be taken by any party, petitioner,
or respondent who is aggrieved by the court’s action or who is a taxpayer,
officer, department, bureau, or board of this city. ~ :