§ 7-1. Platting and Certifications Required.

7-1-1. Any owner or developer of any tract of land situated within the Town of Colonial Beach who subdivides the same shall cause a plat of such subdivision to be made and recorded in the office of the Circuit Clerk of Westmoreland County. No such plat of subdivision shall be recorded unless and until it shall have been submitted, approved and certified by the Commission, and site construction plans have been approved by the Town of Colonial Beach, in accordance with the regulations set forth in this ordinance. No lot shall be sold in any such subdivision before the plat shall have been recorded.

7-1-2. Every such plat shall be prepared by a surveyor or engineer duly licensed by the Commonwealth of Virginia, who shall endorse upon each plat a certificate signed by him setting forth the source of the title of the land subdivided, and the place of record of the last instrument in the chain of title. The outlines of the several tracts shall be indicated upon such plat, within an insert block, or by means of a dotted boundary line upon the plat.

7-1-3. Every such plat, or the deed of dedication to which plat is attached, shall contain, in addition to the surveyor's or engineer's certificate, a statement to the effect that "the above and foregoing subdivision of (here insert correct description of the land subdivided) as appears in this plat is with the free consent and in accordance with the desire of the undersigned owners, proprietors, and trustees, if any, which shall be signed by the owners, proprietors, and trustees, if any, and shall be duly acknowledged before some officer authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds, and when thus executed and approved as herein specified shall be filed and recorded in the office of the Circuit Court Clerk of Westmoreland County and indexed under the names of the land owners signing such statement and under the name of the subdivision.["]

7-1-4. This ordinance bears no relation to any private easement, covenant, agreement or restriction, nor is the responsibility of enforcing such private easement, covenant, agreement or restriction implied herein to any public official. When this ordinance calls for more restrictive standards than are required by private contract the provisions of this ordinance shall control.

7-1-5. No change, erasure, or revision shall be made on any preliminary or final plat, nor on accompanying data sheets after approval of the Commission has been endorsed in writing on the plat or sheets, unless authorization for such changes has been granted in writing by the Commission and unless such changes shall comply with these subdivision regulations in every respect.