CHAPTER 613

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 58-766, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to certain permits for repair, improvements or
construction of certain buildings or structures.

[S 289]

Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 58-766, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 58-766. In any county in the State not included within the opera-
tion of § 58-765, no person, firm or corporation shall commence the con-
struction, repair or improvement of any building or structure located
within such county and permanently annexed to the freehold, if the cost
of such construction, repair or improvement shall exceed the sum of five
hundred dollars, until there shall have been first obtained from the com-
missioner of the revenue of the county a permit in writing, signed by the
commissioner of the revenue. The commissioner of the revenue shall issue
such permits, when the same are required, to every person who shall apply
therefor and describe, with reasonable certainty, the kind and character of
the work to be done and the estimated cost thereof; and each such permit
shall state the matter so described. This section shall not apply to any
county which requires a building permit under the provisions of Articles
2, 3 and 4, Chapter 24, Title 15, of the Code of Virginia. This section
shall not apply to any person, firm or corporation constructing, repairing
or improving any property located within the corporate limits of any town
which issues its own building permits. Any such town shall furnish to
the commissioner of the revenue of the county in which such town is
located, not later than the first day of March of each year, a list of all
such permits issued by such town during the preceding calendar year,
which list shall show the location of the property, the kind and character
of the work done and the estimated cost thereof. . .

No fee shall be charged by any county to which this section appltes
for any * permit; provided, that, in any county adjoining any other county
in this State having a density of population in excess of one thousand per
square mile, there shall be charged for each such permit a fee of not less
than fifty cents nor more than five dollars, in accordance with a schedule
of fees to be prescribed by resolution of the board of supervisors or other
governing body of such county, and all such fees shall be paid into the
county treasury.

Any person, firm or corporation violating this section shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine
not exceeding twenty-five dollars.