(A) Subdivision ordinances shall be prepared, filed, and amended in accordance with VA Code §§ 15.2-2251, 15.2-2252, and 15.2-2253. Specifically:
(1) The Planning Commission shall prepare and recommend the subdivision ordinance and transmit it to the Board of Supervisors. The Board shall approve and adopt a subdivision ordinance only after notice has been published, and a public hearing held, in accordance with VA Code § 15.2-2204.
(2) When a subdivision ordinance has been adopted, or amended, a certified copy of the ordinance and any and all amendments thereto shall be filed in the office of the Zoning Administrator, and in the clerk's office of the Circuit Court for Northampton County.
(3) The Planning Commission on its own initiative may, or at the request of the Board of Supervisors, shall prepare and recommend amendments to the subdivision ordinance. The procedure for amendments shall be the same as for the preparation and recommendation and approval and adoption of the original ordinance; provided that no amendment shall be adopted by the Board without a reference of the proposed amendment to the commission for recommendation, nor until 60 days after such reference, if no recommendation is made by the Commission.
(B) Stat. Auth. Code of Virginia §§ 15.2-2251, 15.2-2252, 15.2-2253.
(Ord. passed 11-10-2020; Am. Ord. passed 12-8-2020)