Chap. 28. An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 5 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, as heretofore amended. [H B 18]

Approved January 14, 1937

I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
sections one and five 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, main-
tenance 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 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, or if said proposed district contains
less than one hundred qualified voters,.upon petition of fifty per centum
of the qualified voters of said proposed district, may make an order
creating a sanitary district or districts in and for said county, which
order shall prescribe the metes and bounds of said district.

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, or if less than one hundred
qualified voters reside therein, upon petition of fifty per centum
of the 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 designated 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
designated in the order authorizing the vote, shall open the polls at
the various voting places in the said district, and shall conduct such
lection in such manner as is provided for by law for other elections :
and 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
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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 certified by the commissioners of elec-
tion to the said circuit court. If it shall appear by the report of the
commissioners of election that a majority 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 supervisors 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 empowered to issue the bonds of the said district for such funds,
either registered or coupons, in denominations of one hundred dollars,
or multiples thereof. The said bonds shall be in such form as the board
may prescribe, shall be signed by the chairman of the said board,
countersigned by the clerk of the board, and sealed with its seal; shall
bear rate of interest not exceeding six per centum, payable semi-annual-
ly; 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.