Chap. 294.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act enabling
county boards of supervisors in certain counties to order and pay fer
certain public improvements through levy of special assessments, approved
March 15, 1920, as amended by an act approved February 25, 1922. [S B 79]

Approved March 24, 1926.

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 pay for certain public improvements through
levy of special assessments, approved March fifteenth, nineteen
hundred and twenty, as amended by an act approved February
twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

The board of supervisors for and in such counties of Virginia as
constifute a separate judicial circuit, and in such counties as have a
density of population as shown by the last preceding United States
census of at least three hundred inhabitants per square mile, are
hereby empowered and directed, whenever petitioned by a majority
of the property owners of a section or district of the county, to order
to be made such public improvements as sewers, water systems,
including mains and pumping units, garbage disposal plants, drain-
age, fire protection apparatus, and fire mains and plugs, street paving,
and mosquito eradication; 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 collecting
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 assessments, payable to the
county treasurer, in installments bearing legal interest; such special
assessments to be a similar lien on said real property as the hereto-
fore authorized annual taxes, and to be subject to the same penalties
for non-payment. .