Chap. 215.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 476 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of 1926, approved March 25, 1926, relating to assessments upon
abutting land owners for certain improvements, in certain cities, so as to bring
under the provisions thereof any city having a population of not less than 140,-
000 nor more than 150,000, and any city having a population of not less than 50,-
000 nor more than 60,000, all according to the last preceding United States
census. [S B 205]

Approved March 13, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That chapter
four hundred and seventy-six of the Acts of nineteen hundred and twen-
ty-six, approved March twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, be
amended and re-enacted, as follows:

All cities within the Commonwealth of Virginia which by the last
preceding United States census had a population of not less than one
hundred and forty thousand nor more than one hundred and fifty thou-
sand, and all cities having a population, according to said census, of not
less than fifty thousand nor more than sixty thousand, shall have the right
to impose an assessment upon abutting land owners for making and im-
proving the walkways upon then existing streets, and for improving and
paving then existing alleys, and for either the construction or for the use
of sewers, provided, that the assessment so imposed shall not be in excess
of the peculiar benefits resulting therefrom to such abutting land owners.
Such improvements may be ordered by the council and the cost thereof
apportioned in pursuance of an agreement between such city and the
abutting land owners. And in the absence of an agreement, improvements,
the cost of which is to be defrayed in whole or in part, by such local as-
sessment, may be ordered on a petition from not less than three-fourths of
the land owners to be affected thereby, or by a two-thirds vote of all of the
members elected to the council. But notice shall first be given as provided
by section thirty hundred and sixty-nine of the Code of Virginia, to the
abutting land owners, notifying them when and where they may appear
before the council or some committee thereof, or the administrative board
or other similar board of the city, to whom the matter may be referred,
to be heard in favor of or against such improvements. The cost of such
improvement, when same shall have been ascertained, shall be assessed or
apportioned by the council or by some committee thereof, or by any of-
ficer or board authorized by the council to make such assessment or ap-
portionment, between the city and the abutting land owners.
_ Any abutting land owner aggrieved by such assessment or appor-
tionment shall have the right to appeal to the circuit or corporation court
of the city wherein such land lies and the proceedings upon such appeal
shall be in conformity with sections thirty hundred and seventy, and
thirty hundred and seventy-one of the Code of Virginia.