CHAPTER 128

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 15-754.1 and 15-754.8, as amended, of
the Code of Virginia, relating, respectively, to notice required for, and
to disapproval by governing bodies of, the establishment or extension
of water supply systems.

[H 310]

Approved February 28, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
l. That §§ 15-754.1 and 15-754.3, as amended, of the Code of Virginia
be amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 15-754.1. Any person, firm, corporation or association who or
which proposes to establish a water supply consisting of a well, springs,
or other source and the necessary pipes, conduits, mains, pumping stations,
and other facilities in connection therewith, to serve or to be capable of
serving three or more connections shall notify the State Board of Health
and shall notify in writing the governing body of the county in which such
water system is to be located and shall appear at a regular meeting thereof
and notify such governing body in person.

In any county having a population of more than 70,000 * or adjoining
a city having a population of 280,000 or more no extension of an existing
system for the purpose of serving three or more connections shall be made
until a plan of such proposed extension, with proof of capacity to serve,
has been filed with, and permit for such extension has been obtained from
the sanitation engineer or other county official, if any, designated therefor
by the board of supervisors.

§ 15-754.8. The governing body of any county so notified of the
proposed establishment of a water system or of the extenston of any
existing water system under the second paragraph of § 15-754.1 of this
article is authorized to disapprove the same, if it finds that such water sys-
tem does not have an adequate source of supply, or that the system is not
capable of serving the proposed number of connections by reason of inade-
quate pipes, mains, conduits, pumping stations, or otherwise. If at the
expiration of seventy days from the date on which the applicant appeared
before the governing body, such governing body has not disapproved the
application, the applicant may proceed with the construction and installa-
tion of such water system, provided he first gives notice to the chairman
of the governing body by registered mail of his intention to proceed.