Chap. 419.—An ACT authorizing certain counties and cities in this State to
establish a mosquito control district or districts; to provide for a governing
body or commission, their appointment and duties; to provide for the creation,
operation and management of such district. or districts, and to provide for the
issuance of bonds and a sinking fund and for financing the same, to authorize
the levy of a tax and appropriating funds. [S B 303]

Approved March 23, 1928

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
boards of supervisors of the counties of Elizabeth City, Warwick,
York, James City, Norfolk, Princess Anne, Nansemond, Isle of Wight,
Southampton, Accomac and Northampton or any of them or any sub-
division of any of them, and the councils of the cities of Hampton,
Newport News, Norfolk, South Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and
Williamsburg, or any of them, are hereby authorized and empowered,
subject to the approval of the State health commissioner, to establish a
mosquito control district, or districts, for the purpose of controlling
and exterminating mosquitoes.

2. The governing body of such mosquito control district or districts
shall be composed of one member from each county or subdivision of a
county, and city in said district. to be appointed for a term of four
vears by the board of supervisors of the county, or the supervisor or
supervisors of a subdivision of a county, or the council of the city, as
the case may be. Such persons so appointed, when duly qualified, shall
constitute the board of commissioners of the mosquito control district,
and such board and their successors are hereby created a body politic,
with power to sue and be sued, to use a common seal, to contract and be
contracted with; and generally and specially to have all the powers
necessary to carry into effect all of the intents and purposes of this act.

Before entering upon the duties of his office, each person appointed
to the board shall take and subscribe an oath before the clerk of the
circuit court of the county, or the clerk of the corporation court of the
citv, as the case may be, to faithfully discharge the duties of his
office. The State health commissioner, or some person appointed by
him, shall be a member of such board and shall be the presiding officer
thereof. In event of any vacancy or vacancies in the membership of
said board, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the board
for the unexpired term until a member is appointed as above provided.
The members of said board shall receive no salary for their services,
but shall receive necessary expenses while actually engaged in the
discharge of their duties.

3. The board of commissioners of the mosquito control district is
empowered to employ necessary clerical assistance, and to employ
engineers, scientists and necessary labor, and is authorized to do any
and all things necessary for the control and elimination of all species
of mosquitoes in said district. This section specifically authorizes the
digging of canals, ditches and drains. filling of depressions, lakes, ponds
or marshes, which are breeding places for mosquitoes, and take other
necessary steps, in so far as said work does not interfere with the water
supply of any city or county within or without such district or create
a nuisance; to condemn rights of way for ditches or drains
whenever such condemnation is necessary; to use oil, paris green or
any approved chemical on any of the ponds, lakes or other bodies of
water, if deemed advisable; provided, however, that all plans of the
board for the eradication or control of mosquitoes shall be approved
by the State health commissioner of Virginia.

4. The board of supervisors of each of the counties of Elizabeth
City, Warwick, York, James City, Norfolk, Princess Anne, Nanse-
mond, Isle of Wight, Southampton, Accomac and Northampton or any
of them or the supervisor or supervisors of any subdivision of any
of them, and the council of each of the cities of Hampton, Newport
News, Norfolk, South Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Williams-
burg, which shall have elected to become a part of a mosquito control
district, or which any subdivision thereof shall have so elected, are
hereby authorized and directed to borrow money, and to issue bonds
therefor, for the purpose of contributing to the cost of work done,
or to be done by the board of commissioners of the mosquito control
district, not in excess of two hundred thousand dollars total for all of
the counties and cities composing the district, the proportionate share
of each of such counties and cities to be determined by the said board
of commissioners. When the bonds herein provided for have been
issued, the board of supervisors of each of the counties, and the coun-
cils of each of the cities hereinabove named, shall have authority to
annually levy a special tax upon all property subject to local taxation
within their respective counties or cities or any subdivision thereof
sufficient to pay the interest on the bonds so issued, and to provide a
sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity, and to provide
funds for the maintenance of the work.

All funds received for levies made for maintenance purposes shall
be kept by the treasurers of the counties and cities composing such
district in a separate fund and accounted for separately and apart
from other county and city funds and shall be paid out by said treas-
urers upon warrants of the board of commissioners of the mosquito
control district, signed by the secretary and countersigned hy the
chairman of such board.

5. After such mosquito control district has been established and
the initial work completed by the board of commissioners, the State
health commissioner is authorized to contribute annually for the pur-
pose of maintaining the work, not more than twenty-five per centum
of the gross amount annually contributed by the counties and cities
in said district for maintenance only, exclusive of the amount pro-
vided by them for the payment of interest on and the redemption of
bonds.

6. For the purpose of providing funds for the contribution herein
authorized, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars for the year
ending February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and thirty, is hereby
appropriated out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropri-
ated, the same to be paid by the treasurer on the warrant of the
comptroller, upon proper voucher or vouchers, required by the comp-
troller, approved bv the State health commissioner.