Chap. 54.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act enabling
county boards of supervisors in certain counties to order and pay for cer-
tain public improvements through levy of special assessments, approved
March 15, 1920. {H B95]

Approved February 25, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled an act enabling county boards of supervisors in certain
counties to order and to pay for certain public improvements through
levy ef special assessments, approved March fifteenth, nineteen hun-
dren and twenty, be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 1. The board of supervisors for and in such counties of
Virginia as constitute a separate judicial circuit are hereby empow-
ered and directed whenever petitioned by a majority of property
owners of a section or district of the county to order such public
improvements as sewers, garbage disposal plants, drainage, fire pro-
tection apparatus and fire mains and plugs, street paving and mosquito
eradication to be made; to let contracts to the lowest competent
bidders for such work; to issue special assessment anticipation war-
rants bearing legal interest to cover the cost of preliminary surveys,
actual construction work, and the cost of spreading and collection
of assessments, and to spread the total cost of such improvements
and their expenses justly and proportionately ; according to benefits,
upon the real properties concerned by special assessment payable
to the county treasurer in installments bearing legal interest ; such
special assessments to bear a similar lien upon said real property
as the heretofore authorized annual taxes and subject to the same
penalties for non-payment.

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