CHAPTER 584

mend and reenact § 15-786 of the Code of Virginia, relating
power of cities and incorporated towns to adopt subdivision
ons to be effective in certain counties under certain conditions.

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Approved April 6, 1954
1acted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
15-786 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
§ 15-786. The governing body of any city or incorporated town, as
described below, may adopt subdivision regulations which shall be effec-
tive both within its corporate limits and beyond within the distance there-
from set out below:

(1) Within a distance of five miles from the corporate limits of
cities having a population of one hundred thousand or more, provided
that this shall not apply beyond the territorial limits of counties touching
any such city

(2). Within a distance of three miles from the corporate limits of
cities having a population of less than one hundred thousand; and

(3) Within a distance of two miles from the corporate ‘limits of
incorporated towns;

Except that where the corporate limits of two municipalities are
closer together than the sum of the distances from their respective cor-
porate limits as above set forth, the dividing line of jurisdiction shall be
halfway between the limits of the overlapping boundaries.

No such regulations shall be finally adopted by any such municipal-
ity until the governing body of the county in which such area is located
shall have been duly notified in writing by the governing body of the
municipality or its designated agent of such proposed regulations, and
requested to review and approve or disapprove the same; and if such
county fail to notify the governing body of such municipality of its dis-
approval of such plan within forty-five days after the giving of such
notice, such plan shall be considered approved. Provided, however, that
in any county adjoining a city having a population of more than two
hundred and twenty thousand which county has a duly appointed plan-
ning commission, the governing body or the council shall forthwith send
a copy of such proposed regulations or amendments thereof to the county
planning commission and instruct said planning commission to review and
recommend approval or disapproval of the same. The county planning
commission shall not take any action on the same until notice of inten-
tion so to do has been published once a week for two successive weeks
in some newspaper having general circulation in such county. Such
notice shall specify the time, not less than ten nor more than twenty days
after final publication as aforesaid, and the place at which persons
affected may appear before the planning commission and present their
views. Such public hearing shall be held by the county planning com-
mission within sixty days after the giving of notice to the governing
body by the munici pahity or its designated agent. The planning commis-
sion shall forthwith after such hearing make its recommendations to
the governing body of the county which shall within thirty days after
such hearing notify the municipality of its approval or disapproval of
such regulations and such regulations shall not be finally adopted by any
such municipality effective beyond its corporate limits until so notified
by the governing body of the county. If the county fails to notify the
governing body of such municipality of its disapproval of such regula-
tions within ninety days after the copy of the regulations or amendments
thereof are received by the county planning commission, the regulations
shall be deemed to have been approved.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.