CHAPTER 652

An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-498, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to preparation and adoption of zoning ordinances
and maps, and amendments thereto; notice to be given. 9

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Approved April 5, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15.1-498, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended
and reenacted as follows:

§ 15.1-493. Preparation and adoption of zoning ordinance and map
and amendments thereto.—The local commission of each county or munic-
ipality may, and at the direction of the governing body shall, prepare
a proposed zoning ordinance including a map or maps showing the division
of the territory into districts and a text setting forth the regulations
applying in each district. The commission shall hold at least one public
hearing on such proposed ordinance or any amendment of an ordinance,
after notice as required by § 15.1-431, and may make appropriate changes
in the proposed ordinance or amendment as a result of such hearing. Upon
the completion of its work, the commission shall present the proposed
ordinance or amendment including the district maps to the governing
body together with its recommendations and appropriate explanatory
materials.

After June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixty-two, no zoning
ordinance shall be amended or re-enacted unless the governing body has
referred the proposed amendment or re-enactment to the local commission
for its recommendations. Failure of the commission to report ninety days
after the first meeting of the commission after the proposed amendment
or re-enactment has been referred to the commission, or such shorter
period as may be prescribed by the governing body, shall be deemed
approval.

Before approving and adopting any zoning ordinance or amendment
thereof, the governing body shall hold at least one public hearing thereon,
pursuant to public notice as required by § 15.1-431, after which the govern-
ing body may make appropriate changes or corrections in the ordinance or
proposed amendment; provided, however, that no additional land may be
zoned to a different classification than was contained in the public notice
without an additional public hearing after notice required by § 15.1-431.
*Such ordinances shall be enacted in the same manner as all other ordi-
nances.
The adoption or amendment prior to March first, nineteen hundred
and sixty- * eight of any plan or ordinance under the authority of prior
acts shall not be declared invalid by reason of a failure to advertise, give
notice or conduct more than one public hearing as may be required by such
act or by this chapter, provided a public hearing was conducted by the
governing body prior to such adoption or amendment.