Chap. 704.—An ACT to authorize and empower the corporate authorities of the
incorporated cities and towns of this commonwealth to contract with any
sewerage or water purification company to introduce, build, maintain anc
operate systems of sewerage and water purification for such cities and towns
and to adopt and enforce such ordinances and regulations as may be neces
sary to establish and maintain proper and suitable sewerage and water puri.
fication systems for such cities and towns; and to regulate and compel the
use of the same, and to fix the charges for connecting with, tapping or using
the sewers, pipes and conduits of any such system of sewerage and water pu.
rification.

Approved March 6, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the cor.
porate authorities of any incorporated city or town of this common:
wealth shall have power and authority to contract with any sewerage
or water purification company to introduce, build, maintain and ope-
rate a system or systems of sewerage and water purifications, or of
sewers, pipes and conduits suitable, necessary and proper for the pu-
rification of the water supply, or for the sewerage of any such city or
town; and shall have power also to require the owners or occupiers
of the real estate within the corporate limits of any such city or
town which may front or abut on the line of any such sewers, pipes,
or conduits as aforesaid, to make such connections with, and to use
such sewers, pipes and conduits under such ordinances and regula-
tions as the corporate authorities of any such city or town may deem
necessary to secure the proper sewerage thereof, and to improve and
secure good sanitary conditions; and shall have power also to en-
force the observance of all such ordinances and regulations by the
imposition and collection of fines and penalties, to be collected for
the use of any such city or town as other fines and penalties under
their respective charters.

2. That the corporate authorities of any incorporated city or town
of this commonwealth, contracting with any company for the objects
and purposes aforesaid, shall have power and authority to provide in
any such contract for the charges and fees to be paid by the owners
or occupiers of the properties within the corporate limits of any such
city or town to any such company for connecting with, tapping or
using any such sewer, pipes or conduits introduced in any such city
or town as aforesaid; and shall have power also to make and pass
all such ordinances and to enforce the same, as may be necessary
and proper to compel the payment of said fees and charges by the
imposition and collection of reasonable fines and penalties, to be col-
lected for the use of any such city or town as other fines and penal-
ties under the provisions of their respective charters; and shall have
power also to do all other acts and things that may be necessary to
establish, enforce and maintain under any such contract a complete
system of water and sewerage purification and sewerage for any such
city or town.

3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.