Chap. 300.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 as amended, and Section
12-a of Chapter 161 of the Acts of Assembly of 1926, approved March 17, 1926,
relating to sanitary districts in certain counties. [H 344]

Approved March 29, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section one as amended, and section twelve-a, of chapter
one hundred sixty-one of the Acts of the General Assembly of nineteen
hundred twenty-six, approved March seventeen, nineteen hundred twen-
ty-six, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 1. The circuit court of any county in this State, having a
density of population of more than five hundred inhabitants a square
mile, according to the last preceding United States census, or of any
county adjoining a city having a population according to the last pre-
ceding United States census of one hundred seventy thousand inhabi-
tants or more, or the judge in vacation, upon the petition of fifty quali-
fied voters of the proposed district, or if the proposed district contains less
than one hundred qualified voters, upon the petition of fifty per centum
of the qualified voters thereof, may make an order creating a sanitary
district or districts in and for such county, which order shall prescribe
the metes and bounds of the district. ,

Section 12-a. In any county in which a sanitary district has been
created, or hereafter is created under this act, the governing body of the
county may, if it deems same necessary, furnish to any thickly populated
area within the district, public utilities, as provided in section three of
this act, and may form such thickly populated area into a smaller district,
hereinafter referred to as “small district”, and allocate to same such sum
or sums of money from the sanitary district bond issue, or issues, as
may be, in the judgment of the governing body, necessary for the con-
struction of public utilities within such “small district”.

All the property subject to local taxation within such “small district”
shall be primarily obligated for the payment of the interest and principal
on that part of the bonded indebtedness of the sanitary district as is
equal to that part of the proceeds therefrom which may have been allo-
cated for use within the “small district”, and the governing body of the
county shall, in the event the net revenue from the operation of such
public utilities is not sufficient to pay the interest and to create a sinking
fund to liquidate the amount so allocated, levy an annual tax on all of
the property, subject to local taxation in the “small district”, to pay
such interest and to make payments into the sinking fund. But nothing
in this act shall be construed to exempt the sanitary district, and the prop-
erty subject to local taxation therein, from its obligation under and by
reason of such sanitary district bond issue or issues. Provided that in
any county having an area of more than forty-five and less than sixty
square miles, such small districts may be created within a sanitary dis-
trict in the same manner that sanitary districts are created under the
foregoing provisions of this section, and when so created shall have all
the powers and be subject to all the obligations herein conferred and
imposed upon sanitary districts. )
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