Chap. 422.-An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of counties to levy
a tax for removal of night soil and to enter into contracts with persons, firms,
or corporations to remove night soil and to prescribe how they shall be paid
for said services; and to repeal chapter 28 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of 1930, approved February 20, 1930. [S B 278]

Approved March 31, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, as follows:

Section 1. The board of supervisors of each county in this State
having a population of not less than thirty-five thousand and not more
than thirty-seven thousand according to the United States census of
1930 is hereby authorized and empowered to levy a tax on each piece
or parcel of real estate on which is located and being used a dry closet
of the box or can type in thickly-settled communities in said county,
and said tax shall be a lien on said real estate of said owner on which
said dry closet may be located and used and shall be collected by the
treasurer of said county as other taxes are collected which shall be
subject to the warrant of the board of supervisors to be paid for the
services hereinafter referred to.

Section 2. The said board of supervisors is authorized and em-
powered to enter into a contract with any person, firm or corporation
or appoint a scavenger to remove the night soil, or human excrement,
from the dry closets of the box or can type of any owner, and the said
board of supervisors shall pay for such services so rendered such
amount as they may deem adequate; however, not to exceed the tax
so levied.

Section 3. It shall be the duty of said person, firm or corporation
with whom said contract is entered into, or scavenger appointed by
the said board of supervisors, to remove the night soil from the said
premises of any owner, occupant or tenant of property in said county
in thickly settled communities on which there is located and being used
a dry closet of the box or can type.

Section 4. The board of supervisors shall require of said person,
firm or corporation with whom it shall enter into a contract, or with
the scavenger appointed by them, a bond in the sum of not less than
five hundred dollars ($500.00) with sufficient security approved by
said board conditioned to faithfully perform the said duties of remov-
ing night soil from the premises of any owner, occupant or tenant in
said county. |

Section 5. In event of the failure to perform said duties in remov-
ing said night soil from said premises, as aforesaid, the board of
supervisors shall notify the said person, firm or corporation, or the
appointee of said board and his or their surety to appear at their next
regular meeting. after said notice is served on them to show cause why
the said bond should not be forfeited.

Section 6. The board of supervisors at the end of each month
shall order proper warrants to be drawn on the treasurer of said countv
in favor of the person, firm or corporation, or the appointee of said
board of supervisors, for such amount as fixed by them for his scaven-
ger services.

Section 7. The chief health officer of said county shall furnish to
the commissioner of revenue of said county a complete list of all the
property on which such dry closet of the box or can type is located and
being used in thickly-settled communities on or before the first day of
January of each year.

Section 8. Nothing in this act shall in any wise amend, modify,
alter or change any existing rule or regulation of the county or State
board of health, as to size or design of dry closets so prescribed by
them.

Section 9. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from
its passage.

2. Be it further enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, that
an act entitled “an act authorizing the board of supervisors of counties
adjoining incorporated cities and towns with a population of one hun-
dred thousand, or more, to levy a tax for removal of night soil and to
enter into contract with persons, firms or corporations to remove night
soil, and prescribe how he or they should be paid for said services,”
approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and thirty, be, and
the same is, hereby repealed.

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