Chap. 274.-An ACT to create a sanitary district in Chesterfield County, Vir-
ginia, to provide for the construction, acquisition, maintenance and operation
by said district of water supply, sewerage, light and power and gas systems,
and fire fighting system by such district; to provide for the issuance of
district bonds on behalf of such district for said purposes, and to provide
funds for establishing and operating such public utilities therein; To em-
power the board of supervisors of said county to require the connection with
and use of the public utilities provided for herein. [H B 549]

Approved March 26, 1938

I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That a
sanitary district is hereby established in Chesterfield county, Virginia,
to be known as “Chester Sanitary District Number One”, consisting
of the territory within the following boundaries, to-wit:

Beginning at a point on the southern line of Curtis street where the
same intersects the eastern line of the former right-of-way of the
Virginia Electric and Power Company’s electric railway; thence run-
ning easterly along the southern line of Curtis street to the westerly
right-of-way line of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company’s
right-of-way; thence southwardly along said right-of-way line to the
southern line of Snead street; thence easterly along the southern line
of Snead street to the easterly line of Petersburg street; thence’ north-
wardly along the easterly line of Petersburg street to the southern
line of Curtis street; thence easterly along the southern line of Curtis
street to a point thereon distant two hundred feet from the south-
westerly line of State highway route number ten (also known as Hun-
dred Road) ; thence from said point in an easterly direction and paral-
lel with said State highway route number ten, one thousand feet to
a point; thence northeasterly and parallel with Curtis street two hun-
dred feet to State highway route number ten; thence still northeasterly
across the said State highway route number ten parallel with Curtis
street to a point two hundred feet distant from a northeasterly line of
said State highway number ten; thence running westerly and parallel
with said State highway number ten and two hundred feet distant
therefrom to the western line of the right-of-way of the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad Company; thence northerly along said right-of-way line
one hundred feet; thence westerly in a straight line to a point two
hundred feet east of Lee avenue and four hundred feet north of
Chester avenue; thence northwardly and parallel with Lee street, a
distance of approximately four hundred feet to a point; thence westerly
and. parallel with Josephine avenue and two hundred feet distant there-
from to the eastern right-of-way line of the Seaboard Air Line Rail-
way Company; thence southerly along said right-of-way line to a
point thereon two hundred feet south of Ecoff avenue; thence south-
easterly and parallel with Ecoff avenue to a point two hundred feet
distant from the northerly line of State highway number ten (also
known as Hundred Road) ; thence westerly and parallel with said State
highway number ten to the eastern right-of-way line of the Seaboard
Air Line Railway Company; thence southerly along said eastern right-
of-way line to the southerly line of said State highway number ten;
thence easterly along said State highway number ten to the western
line of Beck street; thence southerly on the western line of Beck street
to a point two hundred feet south of the southerly line on the said
State highway number ten; thence easterly and parallel with the south-
ern line of State highway route ten to a point distant two hundred
feet west of Park street; thence southwardly and parallel with Park
street to a point two hundred feet south of Shop street; thence easterly
and parallel with Shop street to a point distant two I undred feet west
of Werth street; thence southerly and parallel with Werth street to
the southerly line of Curtis street extended; thence casterly along the
southern line of Curtis street extended to the point of beginning.

Section 1. The governing body of said district shall be the board
of supervisors of Chesterfield county, and said board shall have the
powers and duties, subject to the conditions and limitations therein
set out, as are imposed in and provided for in an act of the General
Assembly of Virginia entitled an act to provide fo: 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 board of supervisors of such counties
as to the construction, acquisition, maintenance and operation of water
supply, sewerage, light and power and gas systems in such districts;
and to provide for issuance of county bonds; to provide funds for
establishing and operating such public utilities in said sanitary districts,
approved March seventeenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and
in all acts amendatory thereof.

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