Chap. 214.—An ACT authorizing and requiring counties having a population
greater than seven hundred and fifty (750) inhabitants per square mile, as
shown by the last preceding United States census, and towns lying wholly or
partly within such counties under certain conditions to co-operate in the con-
struction, maintenance, and care of a sewerage system or systems within the
two jurisdictions; to prohibit the duplication of taxation for such purposes
within the two areas; and to require the circuit court of such county to fix
the term and conditions of such joint use, in the event of failure of the two
jurisdictions to agree upon such terms and conditions. [H B 345]

Approved March 27, 1934

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:

1. That whenever any county having a population greater than seven
hundred and fifty inhabitants per square mile, as shown by the last
preceding United States census, shall adopt and install a system of
sewerage for the use of its citizens, and an incorporated town lying
wholly or partly within such county shall adopt and install a system
of sewerage for the use of citizens of such incorporated town, it shall
be lawful for the board of supervisors or other governing body of such
county to enter into a contract with the mayor and town council of
such town whereby, upon equitable terms, the facilities of the one may
be made available to the other so as to prevent duplication of such
facilities; and, if it be impossible for the board of supervisors or other
governing body of the county and the mayor and town council of the
town to fix and determine all of the terms of the agreement for the
joint use of facilities, then they shall apply to the circuit court, or the
judge thereof in vacation, whose duty it shall be to fix fair and just
and equitable terms upon which the facilities of the one may be used
by the other.

2. If in the construction of the sewer system of the county and the
sewer system of such town, it becomes necessary for either to extend
its sewer system into the territory of the other, there shall be no dupli-
cation of taxation upon those citizens of the town whose property is
connected with said system; that is to say, if the method of financing
the county system of sewerage be by a bond issue, then the property
in the town which is connected with the town system shall not be sub-
ject to a tax levy for the payment of the interest and redemption of the
bonds on the county sewer system, and, conversely, the property in the
town connected with the county system shall not be subject to a tax
for the town system.

3. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its

passage.