Chap. 304.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 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, and not exceeding 50,000.
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, con-
struction, 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. [H B 109]

Approved March 29, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
three of an act entitled an act to provide for the creation of sanitary dis-
tricts in any county adjacent to a city having a population of thirty
thousand, or more, and not exceeding fifty thousand 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, as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

Section 3. After the entry of such order creating a sanitary dis-
trict in such county, the board of supervisors thereof shall have the fol-
lowing powers and duties, subject to the conditions and limitations here-
inafter prescribed :

(a) To construct, maintain and operate water supply, sewerage,
heat, light and power and gas systems for the use and benefit of the
public in such sanitary district.

(b) To acquire by gift, condemnation, purchase, lease, or other-
wise, and to maintain and operate any such water supply, sewerage,
heat, light and power, and gas systems in such district.

(c) Tocontract with any person, firm, corporation or municipality
to construct, establish, maintain and operate any such water supply,
sewerage, heat, light and power, and gas systems in such district.

(d) To require owners or tenants of any property, in the said dis-
trict to connect with any such system or systems, and to contract with
the said owners or tenants for such connections. Said owners or ten-
ants shall have the right of appeal to the circuit court or the judge
thereof in vacation within ten days from action by the said board of
supervisors.

(e) To fix and prescribe the rates of charge for the use of any
such system or systems, and to provide for the collection of such
charges.

(f) To levy and collect an annual tax upon all the property in
such sanitary district subject to local taxation to pay, either in whole or

in part, the expenses and charges incident to maintaining and operating
water supply, sewerage, heat, light and power and gas systems for the
use and benefit of the public in such sanitary district.

(g) To employ and fix the compensation of any technical, clerical
or other force and help which from time to time, in their judgment
may be deemed necessary for the construction, operation or maintenance
of any such system or systems.

(h) To negotiate and contract with any person, firm, corporation
or municipality with regard to the connections of any such system or
systems with any other system or systems now in operation or here-
after to be established, and with regard to any other matter necessary
and proper for the construction or operation and maintenance of any
such system within the said sanitary district.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its pas-
sage.