Chap. 289.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act
to provide for the creation of sanitary districtsin counties of the State ad-
joining a city having a population, according to the last preceding United
States census, of one hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants or more: to
prescribe the powers and duties of the boards of supervisors of such counties
as to the construction, acquisition, maintenance and operation of water sup-
ply, sewerage, heat, light and power and gas systems in such districts; and
to provide for the issuance of county bonds; to provide funds for establish-
ing and operating such public utilities in said sanitary districts, approved
March 17, 1926, so as to make the same apply to counties having a popula-
tion greater than 500 inhabitants to the square mile. [H B 267]

Approved March 21, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one of an act entitled an act to provide for the creation of sanitary
districts in counties of the State adjoining a city having a population,
according to the last preceding United States census, of one hundred
and seventy thousand inhabitants or more; to prescribe the powers and
duties of the boards of supervisors of such counties as to the con-
struction, acquisition, maintenance and operation of water supply,
sewerage, heat, light and power and gas systems in such districts; and
to provide for the issuance of county bonds; to provide funds for
establishing and operating such public utilities in said sanitary dis-
tricts, approved March seventeenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-
six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. The circuit court of any county in this State having a
population of more than five hundred inhabitants per square mile,
according to the United States census, or of any county adjoining a
city having a population, according to the last preceding United States
census, of one hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants, or more,
or the judge of such court in vacation, upon the petition of fifty
qualified voters of said proposed district, may make an order creating
a sanitary district or districts in and for such county, which order
shall prescribe the metes and bounds of said district.