CHAPTER 437

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-855 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to zoning in certain counties.
[H 514]

Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

Fn That § 15-855 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 15-855. For the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals
and peneral welfare of the community, the board of supervisors of any
county :

‘ (1) Having a density of population of more than five hundred a square
mile,

(2) Adjoining a city having a population of one hundred thousand
or more,
(3) Having a land area of less than seventy-five but more than sixty
sanatre miles and a population of less than ten thousand but more than eight

ousand,

_ (4) Having an area of more than two hundred twenty-five square
miles but less than two hundred forty square miles and a population of
more than sixteen thousand eight hundred but less than eighteen thousand,

(5) Having an area of more than four hundred sixty-nine square
miles but less than four hundred seventy-five square miles and a population
of more than thirty-three thousand but less than thirty-five thousand, or

(6) Adjoining a city having a population of more than sixty thousand
but less than seventy-five thousand, .

All as shown by the last preceding United States census, may by ordi-
nance regulate and restrict the height, number of stories and size of build-
ings and other structures erected in the county, the percentage of a lot
that may be occupied by the building or structure, the size of yards, courts
and other open spaces, the density of population, and the location and use
of buildings, portions of buildings, structures and land for trade, industry,
residence or other purposes and may prescribe the type of materials to be
used in buildings and other structures.

The board of supervisors of any county having a land area of more
than sixty but less than seventy-five square miles and a population of more
than eight thousand but less than ten thousand, as shown by such census,
and which, for the purposes hereinabove stated, adopts any ordinances
hereinbefore authorized may, to further promote such purposes, by ordi-
ance regulate the types of materials to be used for electrical wiring and
paturee or yaa in heating, safety and sanitary facilities and the installa-
ion thereof.