CHAPTER 430

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-764.2 of the Code of Virginia, which
section provides certain definitions for the Virginia Water and Sewer
Authorities Act.

(S 352]

Approved April 1, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15-764.2 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 15-764.2. As used in this chapter, the following words and terms
shall have the following meanings unless the context shall indicate another
meaning or intent:

(a) The word “authority” shall mean an authority created under the
provisions of § 15-764.3 or, if any such authority shall be abolished, the
board, body, or commission succeeding to the principal functions thereof or
to whom the powers given by this chapter to such authority shall be given
by law.

(b) The word “county” shall mean any county in the Commonwealth
of Virginia.
(c) The word “municipality” shall mean any city or town incorporated
under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

(d) The word “unit” shall mean any department, institution or com-
mission of the Commonwealth of Virginia and any public corporate in-
strumentality thereof, and any district, and shall include counties and
municipalities.

(e) The term “political subdivision” shall mean a county or munici-
pality and any institution or commission of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

(f) The term “governing body” shall mean in the case of a county the
board of supervisors and in the case of a municipality the board, commis-
sion, council or other body by whatever name it may be known, in which
the general legislative powers of the municipality are vested.

(g) The term “water system” shall mean all plants, systems, facilities
or properties used or useful or having the present capacity for future use in
connection with the supply or distribution of water, and any integral part
thereof, including water supply systems, water distribution systems,
reservoirs, wells, intakes, mains, laterals, pumping stations, standpipes,
filtration plants, purification plants, hydrants, meters, valves and equip-
ment, appurtenances, and all properties, rights, easements and franchises
relating thereto and deemed necessary or convenient by the authority for
the operation thereof.

(h) The term “sewer system” or ‘‘sewage system” means pipe lines
or conduits, pumping stations, and force mains, and all other constructions,
devices, and appliances appurtenant thereto, used for conducting sewage,
industrial wastes or other wastes to a point of ultimate disposal.

(i) The term “sewage’’ means the water-carried wastes created in and
carried, or to be carried, away from residences, hotels, schools, hospitals,
industrial establishments, commercial establishments or any other private
or public building, together with such surface or ground water and house-
hold and industrial wastes as may be present.

(j) The term “sewage disposal system” means any system, plant, dis-
posal field, lagoon, pumping station, constructed drainage ditch or surface
water intercepting ditch, incinerator, area devoted to sanitary land fills, or
other works not specifically mentioned herein, installed for the purpose of
treating, neutralizing, stabilizing or disposing of sewage, industrial waste
or other wastes.

(k) The term “garbage and refuse collection and disposal system”
means garbage, ashes and refuse daily accumulated in, and collected or
carried away from, residences, hotels, schools, hospitals, industrial estab-
lishments, commercial establishments or any other private or public build-
ing; trucks, conveyances, plants, incinerators, structures and real or per-
sonal property necessary for final disposal of such wastes.

(1) The word “improvements” shall mean such repairs, replacements,
additions, extensions and betterments of and to a water system, a sewer
system, a sewage disposal system, or a garbage and refuse collection and
disposal system, as are deemed necessary by the authority to place or to
maintain such system in proper condition for the safe, efficient and
economic operation thereof or to meet requirements for service in areas
which may be served by the authority and in which no existing service is
being rendered.

(m) The term “cost of improvements” shall mean the cost of con-
structing improvements as hereinabove defined and shall embrace the cost
of all labor and material, the cost of all lands, property, rights, easements,
franchises, and permits acquired which are deemed necessary for such con-
struction, interest during any period of disuse during such construction,
the cost of all machinery and equipment, financing charges, cost of
engineering and legal expenses, plans, specifications, and such other ex-
penses as may be necessary or incident to such construction.

(n) The word “cost” as applied to a water system, a sewer system, a
sewage disposal system, or a garbage and refuse collection and disposal
system, shall include the purchase price of any such system or the cost
of acquiring all of the capital stock of the corporation owning such system
and the amount to be paid to discharge all of its obligations in order to
vest title to the system or any part thereof in the authority, the cost of
improvements, the cost of all lands, properties, rights, easements, fran-
chises, and permits acquired, the cost of all machinery and equipment,
financing charges, interest prior to and during construction and for one
year after completion of construction, cost of engineering and legal serv-
ices, plans, specifications, surveys, estimates of cost and of revenues, other
expenses necessary or incident to the determining of the feasibility or
practicability of any such acquisition, improvement, or construction, ad-
ministrative expenses, and such other expenses as may be necessary or
incident to the financing herein authorized, to the acquisition, improvement,
construction of a water system, a sewer system, a sewage disposal system,
or a garbage and refuse collection and disposal system, and the placing of
the same in operation by the authority. Any obligation or expense in-
curred by the authority prior to the issuance of revenue bonds under the
provisions of this chapter for engineering studies and for estimates of cost
and of revenues and for other technical or professional services which may
be utilized in the acquisition, improvement or construction of such system,
may be regarded as a part of the cost of such system.

(o) The term “Federal agency” shall mean and include the United
States of America, any department or bureau thereof, the Federal Works
Agency, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and any other agency
or instrumentality of the United States of America heretofore established
or which may be established or created hereafter.

(p) The word “owner” shall include all individuals, incorporated
companies, copartnerships, societies or associations, and any Federal] agency
or unit of the Commonwealth having any title or interest in any water
system, or sewer system, or sewage disposal system, or a garbage and
refuse collection and disposal system, or the services or facilities to be
rendered thereby.