National Realty Corp. v. City of Virginia Beach

This case involves the validity of an ordinance of the City of Virginia Beach (the City) which imposes a fee of $25 per lot for examination and approval of final subdivision plats, and makes payment of said fee a prerequisite to the recording of the plat by the clerk of the circuit court of the City.

National Realty Corporation,, hereinafter referred to as National or plaintiff, owned a tract of land in the City which it subdivided into twenty-nine lots as shown on a plat which it desired to have recorded. The clerk of the circuit court of the City refused to record the plat because the…