                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

STATUTORY PROVISIONS EFFECTIVE AFTER ORDINANCE ADOPTED (§ 15.2-2254)

After the adoption of a subdivision ordinance in accordance with this chapter,
the following provisions shall be effective in the territory to which the
ordinance applies:

1. No person shall subdivide land without making and recording a plat of the
subdivision and without fully complying with the provisions of this article and
of the subdivision ordinance.

2. No plat of any subdivision shall be recorded unless and until it has been
submitted to and approved by the designated agent, of the locality wherein the
land to be subdivided is located; or by the designated agents, as the case may
be, of each locality having a subdivision ordinance, in which any part of the
land lies.

3. No person shall sell or transfer any land of a subdivision, before a plat has
been duly approved and recorded as provided herein, unless the subdivision was
lawfully created prior to the adoption of a subdivision ordinance applicable
thereto. However, nothing herein contained shall be construed as preventing the
recordation of the instrument by which such land is transferred or the passage
of title as between the parties to the instrument.

4. Any person violating the foregoing provisions of this section shall be
subject to a fine of not more than $500 for each lot or parcel of land so
subdivided, transferred or sold and shall be required to comply with all
provisions of this article and the subdivision ordinance. The description of the
lot or parcel by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other
document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the
transaction from the penalties or remedies herein provided.

5. No clerk of any court shall file or record a plat of a subdivision required
by this article to be recorded until the plat has been approved as required
herein. The penalties provided by &#xA7; 17.1-223 shall apply to any failure to
comply with the provisions of this subsection.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 15-784, 15-785, 15-794.1, 15-967.8; 1962, c. 407, §
15.1-473; 1975, c. 641; 1997, c.; 2003, c. 408; 2025, c. 594.