Chap. 17.—-An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3, as heretofore amended,
of an act entitled “An act to provide for the creation of sanitary districts
in any county adjacent to a city having a population of thirty thousand, or
more, according to the latest United States census; to prescribe the powers
and duties of the boards of supervisors of such counties as to the acquisition,
construction, maintenance and operation of water supply, sewerage, heat,
light, power and gas systems in such districts; to provide for the issuance
of bonds to raise funds for establishing of such public utilities in such
districts, and to provide for the maintenance thereof, and for the payment
of such bonds”, approved March 27, 1930, so as to provide for fire fighting
equipment, the abatment of nuisances and the collection and removal of
garbage in such districts. [H B 121]

Approved February 24, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion three, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled an act to provide
for the creation of sanitary districts in any county adjacent to a city
having a population of thirty thousand, or more, according to the latest
United States census; to prescribe the powers and duties of the
boards of supervisors of such counties as to the acquisition, construc-
tion, maintenance and operation of water supply, sewerage, heat, light,
power and gas systems in such districts; to provide for the issuance
of bonds to raise funds for establishing of such public utilities in
such districts, and to provide for the maintenance thereof, and for
the payment of such bonds, approved March twenty-seventh, nineteen
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hundred and thirty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Section 3. After the entry of such order creating a sanitary dis-
trict in such county, the board of supervisors thereof shall have the
following powers and duties, subject to the conditions and limitations
hereinafter prescribed:

(a) To construct, maintain and operate water supply, sewerage,
garbage removal and disposal, heat, light, fire fighting equipment and
power and gas systems and sidewalks for the use and benefit of the
public in such sanitary districts.

(b) To acquire by gift, condemnation, purchase, lease, or other-
wise, and to maintain and operate any such water supply, sewerage,
garbage removal and disposal, heat, light, fire fighting equipment and
power and gas systems and sidewalks in such district.

(c) To contract with any person, firm, corporation or municipality
to construct, establish, maintain and operate any such water supply,
sewerage, garbage removal and disposal, heat, light, fire fighting equip-
ment and power and gas systems and sidewalks in such district.

(d) To require owners or tenants of any property, in the said
district to connect with any such system or systems, and to contract
with the said owners or tenants for such connections. Said owners
or tenants shall have the right of appeal to the circuit court or the
judge thereof in vacation within ten days from action by the said
board of supervisors.

(e) To fix and prescribe the rates of charge for the use of any
such system or systems, and to provide for the collection of such
charges. |

({) To levy and collect an annual tax upon all the property in
such sanitary district subject to local taxation to pay, either in whole
or in part, the expenses and charges incident to maintaining and oper-
ating water supply, sewerage, garbage removal and disposal, heat,
light, fire fighting equipment and power and gas systems and sidewalks
for the use and benefit of the public in such sanitary district.

(zg) To employ and fix the compensation of any technical, clerical
or other force and help which from time to time, in their judgment
may be deemed necessary for the construction, operation or maintenance
of any such system or systems and sidewalks.

(h) To negotiate and contract with any person, firm, corpora-
tion or municipality with regard to the connections of any such system
or systems with any other system or systems now in operation or
hereafter to be established, and with regard to any other matter neces-
sary and proper for the construction or operation and maintenance of
any such system within the said sanitary district.

(i) The board of supervisors shall have the same power and
authority for the abatement of nuisances in such sanitary district as
is vested by law in councils of cities and towns for the abatement of
nuisances therein, and it shall be the duty of the board to exercise
such power when any such nuisance shall be shown to exist.