CHAPTER 454

An Act to amend and reenact § 1, as amended, of Chapter 161 of the Acts
of Assembly of 1926, approved March 17, 1926, which was continued
in effect by § 21-120 of the Code of Virginia, relating to sanitary
districts in certain counties.

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Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 1, as amended, of Chapter 161 of the Acts of Assembly of
1926, approved March 17, 1926, which was continued in effect by § 21-120
of the Code of Virginia, be amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 1. The circuit court of any county in this State having a density
of population of more than five hundred inhabitants per square mile, ac-
cording to the last preceding United States census or of any county adjoin-
ing any county in this State having a population of more than one thousand
inhabitants per square mile, or of any county adjoining a city having a
population according to the last preceding United States census, of one
hundred seventy thousand inhabitants, or more, or the judge of such court
in vacation, upon the petition of the governing body of the county made
pursuant to a resolution of such governing body duly adopted, or upon the
petition of fifty qualified 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.

On and after the effective date of the amendments to Chapter one
hundred sixty-one of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred twenty-six
made by the General Assembly of nineteen hundred fifty-two, all the pro-
visions of such Chapter, as amended, shall be fully applicable to any and
all sanitary districts heretofore created in any county included within the
provisions of such Chapter, and the provisions of the statute under which
any such district was created shall no longer apply.