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and for the avoidance of congestion of population, including minimum
width and area of lots.

Such regulations may include provisions as to the extent to which
streets and other ways shall be graded and improved and to which water
and sewer and other utility mains, piping, or other facilities shall be in-
stalled as a condition precedent to the approval of the plat.

1929, ch. 443, sec. 14.

451. The planning commission shall approve or disapprove a plat
within 30 days after the submission thereof to it; otherwise such plat shall
be deemed to have been approved, and a certificate to that effect shall be
issued by the commission on demand; provided, however, that the applica-
tion for the commission's approval may waive this requirement and con-
sent to an extension of such period. The ground of disapproval of any
plat shall be stated upon the records of the commission. Any plat sub-
mitted to the commission shall contain the name and address of a person
to whom notice of a hearing shall be sent; and no plat shall be acted on
by the commission without affording a hearing thereon by all persons in-
terested therein, including the owners of land immediately adjoining.
Every plat approved by the commission shall, by virtue of such approval,
be deemed to be an amendment of or an addition to or a detail of the mu-
nicipal plan and a part thereof. Approval of a plat shall not be deemed
to constitute or effect an acceptance by the public of any street or other
open space shown upon the plat. The planning commission may, from
time to time, recommend to the Board of Aldermen amendments of the
zoning ordinance or map or additions thereto to conform to the commis-
sion's recommendations for the zoning regulation of the territory com-
prised within approved sub-divisions. The commission shall have the
power to agree with the applicant upon use, height, area or bulk require-
ments or restrictions governing buildings and premises within the sub-
division, provided such requirements or restrictions do not authorize the
violation of the then effective zoning ordinance of the municipality. Such
requirements or restrictions shall be stated upon the plat prior to the ap-
proval thereof and shall have the same force of law and be enforceable in
the same manner and with the same sanctions and penalties and subject
to the same power of amendment or repeal as though set out as a part of
the zoning ordinance or map of the municipality.

1929, ch. 443, sec. 15.

452. Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land
located within a sub-division, transfers or sells or agrees to sell or negoti-
ates to sell any land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a
plat of a sub-division, before such plat has been approved by the planning
commission shall forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding $100 for each
lot or parcel so transferred or sold or agreed or negotiated to be sold; and
the description of such lot or parcel by metes and bounds in the instru-
ment of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or trans-