Chap. 134.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3064 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to contracts of cities and towns for sewerage, et cetera, in
order to bring within its terms certain counties. [H B 207}

Approved March 10, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three thousand and sixty-four of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows

Section 3064. Corporate authorities of cities and towns and certain
counties may contract with any sewerage or water purification com-
pany, et cetera——The corporate authorities of any incorporated city
or town, or the board of supervisors of any county having a population
greater than five hundred inhabitants per square mile as shown by
United States census, of this Commonwealth shall have power and
authority to contract with any sewerage or water purification company
to introduce, build, maintain, and operate a system or systems of
sewerage and water purifications, or of sewers, pipes, and conduits
suitable, necessary, and proper for the purification of the water supply
or for the sewerage of any such city or town, or county, 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, or within the
limits of any such county, 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 regulations as the corporate authorities, or the board of super-
visors, as the case may be, of any such city or town, or county, 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
unposition and collection of fines and penalties, to be collected for the
use of any such city or town, or county, as other fines and penalties.
The corporate authorities of any incoporated city or town, or the
board of supervisors of such county, of this Commonwealth contract-
ing 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 proper-
ties within the corporate limits of any such city or town, or within the
limits of such county, to any such company for connecting with, tap-
ping, or using any such sewer, pipes, or conduits introduced in any
such city or town, or county, 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 pen-
alties to be collected for the use of any such city or town, or county, as
other fines and penalties: and shall have power also to do all other
acts and things that may be necessary to establish, enforce, and main-
tain under any such contract a complete system of water and sewerage
purification and sewerage for any such city or town, or county.