Chap. 313.—An ACT to determine the nature of sanitary districts heretofore or
hereafter created in this State from and after the date of such creation, and
determining the nature of improvements therein. [H B 553]

Approved March 26, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:

Section 1. Each sanitary district created or purported to be created
by an order of the circuit court of any county of this State, or a judge
thereof, heretofore or hereafter made and entered pursuant to any gen-
eral law of this State, is hereby determined to be and is hereby made,
from and after the date of such creation or purported creation, a special
taxing district for the purposes for which created; and any improve-
ments heretofore or hereafter made by or for any such district are
hereby determined to be general tax improvements and of general ben-
efit to all of the property within said sanitary district, as distinct from
peculiar or special benefits to some or all of the property within said
sanitary district.

Section 2. Neither the creation of the said sanitary districts as
special taxing districts nor any other provision in this act shall in any
wise affect the authority, power and jurisdiction of the respective
county boards of supervisors, sheriffs, treasurers, commissioners of the
revenue, circuit courts, clerks, trial justices, justices of the peace or any
other county, district or State officer over the area embraced in any
such district, nor shall the same restrict or affect in any way any
county, or the board of supervisors or other governing body of any
county, from imposing on and collecting from abutting landowners,
or other landowners receiving special or peculiar benefits, in any such
district, taxes or assessments for local public improvements as per-
mitted by the Constitution and by other statutes of the State.

Section 3. If any section, clause or provision of this act shall be
unconstitutional or be ineffective in whole or in part, to the extent that
it is not unconstitutional or ineffective, it shall be valid and effective
and no other section, clause or provision shall on account thereof be
deemed invalid or ineffective, and the inapplicability or invalidity of
any section, clause or provision of this act in any one or more instances
shall not be taken to affect or prejudice in any way its applicability or
validity in any other instance.

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