Chap. 141.—An ACT to authorize and empower the Board of Supervisors of any
county which adjoins three cities lying wholly within this State, one of which
cities has a population of 170,000 or more as shown by the last preceding United
States census, to construct, reconstruct, maintain, alter, improve, add to and
operate water supply systems; to acquire by gift, condemnation, purchase,
lease, or otherwise, water supply system or systems; to furnish water from any
such system to any sanitary district, village, town, community, individuals,
firm, corporation or partnership; to make such charge for the supply of water
herein authorized as the board may from time to time determine upon; to lay
a levy for the purpose of raising funds for the construction, maintenance,
operation, improvement and reconstruction of any such water system or sys-
tems or to appropriate from the general county fund for such purposes; to
contract for a loan and to issue bonds for the purpose of construction, acquisi-
tion, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance and operation of any such
water system on the credit of the county, provided, that such borrowing power
shall not exist, and the loan shall not be contracted for or bonds issued unless
and until the action of the Board of Supervisors determining to construct,
maintain and operate or acquire, reconstruct, improve such water system shall
be certified to the judge of the Circuit Court of said county and petitioning the
said judge to call an election for the purpose of obtaining the approval of such
loan and bond issue by the qualified voters of the county, and prescribing the
duties of the judge of the said Circuit Court of said county; prescribing the
duties of the regular election officers, and prescribing the duties and powers of
the Board of Supervisors. [SB 227]

Approved March 6, 1940

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:
Section 1. The Board of Supervisors of any county in this State
ch adjoins three cities lying wholly within this State one of which
2s has a population of 170,000 or more as shown by the last pre-
ing United States census, shall be and it hereby is authorized and
yowered to construct, reconstruct, maintain, alter, improve, add
ind operate water supply systems in said county.
Section 2. Said boards shall have the following additional powers
duties subject to the conditions and limitations hereinafter
scribed.
(a) To acquire by gift, condemnation, purchase, lease or other-
wise water supply system or systems.

(b) To furnish water from any such system to any sanitary dis-
trict, village, town, community, individual, firm, corporation or
partnership, and to make such charge for such supply of water as
the board may from time to time determine upon.

(c) To lay a levy for the purpose of raising funds for the con-
struction, maintenance, operation, improvement, acquisition and re-
construction of any such water systems or in lieu thereof to appropriate
from the general county fund for such purposes.

(d) To contract for a loan and to issue bonds for the purpose of
construction, acquisition, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance
and operation of any such water systems on the credit of the county,
provided that such borrowing power shall not exist and the loan shall
not be contracted for nor bonds issued unless and until the action of
the Board of Supervisors determining to construct, maintain and
operate or acquire, reconstruct and improve such water systems shall
be certified to the judge of the Circuit Court of said county petitioning
the said judge to call an election for the purpose of obtaining the
approval of sach loan and bond issue by the qualified voters of the
county. After receipt of the petition of the Board of Supervisors
above referred to, the judge of the Circuit Court of said county, in
term time or in vacation, shall call an election in the manner and by
the method prescribed for a like purpose as is authorized in Chapter
one hundred and sixty-one of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Virginia of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, as amended, and the
regular election officers of said county shall be governed by the pro-
visions of said Chapter one hundred and sixty-one, as amended.

(e) If said board shall be authorized by the qualified voters
approval to issue bonds, then said board shall proceed to issue such
bonds in the manner prescribed in Chapter one hundred and sixty-
one of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia of nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-six, as amended, supplying the name of the county
wherein the same may be indicated, as fully as if the terms of said
Chapter one hundred and sixty-one were fully set out herein.