Chap. 15.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 4, 5 and 7 of an act
entitled an act to provide for the creation of sanitary districts in any county
adjacent to a city having a population of thirty thousand, or more, according
to the latest United States census; to prescribe the powers and duties of the
boards of supervisors of such counties as to the acquisition, construction,
maintenance and operation of water supply, sewerage, heat, light, power and
gas systems in such districts; to provide for the issuance of bonds to raise
funds for establishing of such public utilities in such districts, and to provide
for the maintenance thereof, and for the payment of such bonds, approved
March 27, 1930, so as to provide for the creation of sanitary districts in any
county in the State and to provide for the issuance of sanitary district bonds.

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Approved September 2, 1933 |

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sections
one, four, five and seven of an act entitled an act to provide for the cre-
ation of sanitary districts in any county adjacent to a city having a popu-
lation of thirty thousand, or more, according to the latest United States
census; to prescribe the powers and duties of the boards of supervisors
of such counties as to the acquisition, construction, maintenance and
operation of water supply, sewerage, heat, light, power and gas systems
in such districts; to provide for the issuance of bonds to raise funds for
establishing of such public utilities in such districts, and to provide for
the maintenance thereof, and for the payment of such bonds, approved
‘March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and thirty, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. The circuit court of any county in this State, or the judge
of such court in vacation, upon the petition of fifty qualified voters of
said proposed district, may make an order creating a sanitary district
or districts in and for such county, which order shall prescribe the metes
and bounds of said’ district. ,

Section 4. In order to raise the necessary funds to carry into effect
the foregoing powers the board of supervisors in any such county in
which any such sanitary district has been created shall have power, sub-
ject to the conditions and limitations of this act, to issue the bonds of the
said district to an amount in the aggregate of not exceeding eighteen per
centum of the assessed value of all real estate in the said sanitary dis-
trict subject to local taxation.

Section 5. (a) The circuit court of such county, or the judge thereof
in vacation, upon the petition of a majority of the board of supervisors
of said county, or upon the petition of fifty qualified voters residing in
said sanitary district shall make an order requiring the judges of
election, at the next election of county officers or at any other time not
less than thirty days from the date of such order, which shall be desig-
nated therein, to open a poll and take the sense of the qualified voters
of the said sanitary district or districts on the question whether the
board of supervisors shall issue bonds for said purposes. ,

(b) The regular election officers of said county, at the time desig-
nated in the order authorizing the vote, shall open the polls at the various
voting places in the said district, and shall conduct such election in such
manner as is provided for by law for other elections; at such election
each qualified voter who shall approve such issue of bonds shall deposit
a ticket or ballot on which shall be written or printed the words, “For
bond issue,’ and each qualified voter who shall disapprove said issue of
bonds shall deposit a ticket or ballot whereon shall be written or printed
the words, “Against bond issue.” The ballots shall be counted, returns
made and canvassed, as in other special elections, and the results cer-
tified by the commissioners of election to the said circuit court. If it
shall appear by the report of the commissioners of election that a ma-
jority of the qualified voters of the district voting on the question are
in favor of issuing bonds for the purpose aforesaid, the circuit court
shall, at its next term, enter an order authorizing the board of super-
visors of the county to proceed at their next meeting to carry out the
wishes of the voters.

(c) Upon the proceedings under the two preceding subsections being
had, and not otherwise, the board of supervisors is authorized and em-
powered to issue the bonds of the said district for such funds, either
registered or coupons, in denominations of one hundred dollars, or mul-
tiples thereof. The said bonds shall be in such form as the board may
prescribe, shall be signed by the chairman of the said board, counter-
signed by the clerk of the board, and sealed with its seal; shall bear rate
of interest not exceeding six per centum, payable semi-annually; to be
payable not exceeding thirty years after date, and redeemable after such
time as the said board may prescribe. If coupon bonds are issued, they
shall be payable to bearer, and shall have coupons attached for the semi-
annual installments of interest. No bonds issued under this section
shall be sold at less than par.

Section 7. When the board of supervisors of the said county wishes
to redeem any of the outstanding bonds subject to call, issued under the
provisions of this act, it may, through the chairman of the board of
supervisors give notice of its readiness to do so to the holder in person
or by publication thereof once a week for two successive weeks in a
newspaper published in said county or nearest thereto. It shall be suff-
cient in the notice to give the number and amount of such bond, and fix
a day for its presentation for payment, which shall not be less than ten
days from the date of personal service of notice, or the completion of
the publication thereof, as the case may be. .

If the bond be not presented on the day fixed for its redemption, in-
terest thereon shall cease from that day.

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