CHAPTER 194

An Act to amend and reenact § 21-254 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the authority of sanitation commissions to enter into special con-
tracts for the disposal of sewage and other wastes. CH 495]

Approved March 13, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 21-254 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 21-254. Special contracts for disposal of sewage and other wastes.
—(a) Every commission is authorized to enter into contracts with the
United States of America, or with any department, institution or agency
thereof, on such terms and conditions as the commission may approve,
providing for or relating to the treatment and disposal of sewage or indus-
trial wastes of or originating in or on any reservation, property, institu-
tion, building or structure within the district owned or under the control
of the United States of America, or any department, institution or agency
thereof, by means of the sewage disposal system or such other facilities
as the commission may determine to provide for such purpose, or in such
other manner as such contract may provide.

(b) Every commission is authorized to provide, contract, operate and
maintain facilities for the treatment and disposal of industrial wastes
originating in the district, and to enter into contracts with any person,
on such terms and conditions as the commission may approve, providing
for or relating to the treatment and disposal of any such industrial wastes.

(c) Every commission is authorized to enter into contracts with any
person owning or operating any sewer system within the district or
engaged in treatment or disposing of sewage or industrial wastes originat-
ing in the district, on such terms and conditions as the commission may
approve, providing for or relating to the treatment and disposal of any
sewage or industrial wastes collected in such sewer system or by such
person.

(d) Every commission is authorized to enter into contracts with the
owner of property adjoining its district on such terms and conditions as
such commission may approve, providing for or relating to the treatment
and disposal of sewage or industrial wastes of or originating in or on
such adjoining property by means of the sewage disposal system or such
other facilities as such commission may determine to provide for such
purpose, or in such other manner as such contract may provide.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.