Chap. 36. An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled “An
act to create and provide for the Hampton Roads Sewage Disposal Com-
mission; to provide for the appointment and removal of the members thereof ;
to fix their compensation; to prescribe the rights, powers and duties of
the said commission; to authorize and empower the said commission to
acquire, own, construct, reconstruct, replace, improve, repair, maintain,
operate and use trunk, intercepting and outlet sewers, pumping and ventilating
stations, treatment plants or works and other plants and structures to relieve
waters in Hampton roads and Chesapeake bay and in certain rivers and
creeks and certain other tributaries, from pollution and to prevent the
pollution of the same; to authorize the making of certain contracts and
agreements with and by counties, cities and towns; and to appropriate to
the said commission the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the purpose
of carrying out the provisions of this act,” approved March 27, 1936, so as
to add to the area coming under the provisions thereof and of said | act,
the waters in and around the eastern and western sides of Accomac and
Northampton counties. [S B 26]

Approved January 15, 1937

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
section three of an act entitled “An act to create and provide for the
Hampton Road Sewage Disposal Commission; to provide for the
appointment and removal of the members thereof; to fix their com-
pensation; to prescribe the rights, powers and duties of the said com-
mission; to authorize and empower the said commission to acquire,
own, construct, reconstruct, replace, improve, repair, maintain, operate
and use trunk, intercepting and outlet sewers, pumping and ventilating
stations, treatment plants or works and other plants and structures
to relieve waters in Hampton roads and Chesapeake bay and in
certain rivers and creeks and certain other tributaries, from pollution
and to prevent the pollution of the same; to authorize the making of
certain contracts and agreements with and by counties, cities and towns;
and to appropriate to the said commission the sum of fifteen thousand
dollars for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act,”
approved March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and_ thirty-six,
be amended and. re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3. It shall’ be the duty of the commission to draft a plan
for the elimination of pollution by sewerage or otherwise of the tidal
waters or any part of such waters within the area known as the
Hampton Roads-Chesapeake Bay area, the final determination of which
shall be left to the commission, subject to the provision, however, that
the said area shall include the tidal waters made up by the eastern,
southern and western branches of the Elizabeth river, the Nansemond
river, the James river, Chuckatuck creek, Hampton creek, and lesser
tributaries, and the waters in and around the eastern and western sides
of Accomac and Northampton counties. To this end the commission
is authorized and empowered to make such study, investigation and
survey of the said area and of matters relating to the pollution of the
same, as it shall deem proper, in order to determine ways and means
whereby such pollution may be eliminated, and the cost thereof.