Chap. 373.—An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of any
county having a population of less than 30,000 inhabitants and adjoining a city
having a population of more than 100,000 but less than 150,000 inhabitants, to
make provision for water supply systems for such county, to provide for the
making of certain levies, the contracting of certain obligations and the issuance
of certain bonds for the purpose, under certain conditions, and further to define
the functions, powers and duties of such boards of supervisors with reference
to the construction, maintenance, improvement and operation of such water
supply systems. [S B 350]

Approved April 1, 1940

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia as follows:

Section 1. The board of supervisors of any county in this State
which has a population of less than thirty thousand inhabitants and
which adjoins a city in this State which has a population of more than
one hundred thousand but less than one hundred and fifty thousand
inhabitants all according to the last preceding United States census,
shall be, and it hereby is, authorized and empowered to construct,
reconstruct, maintain, alter, improve, add to and operate water supply
systems in said county.

Section 2. Said boards shall have the following additional powers
and duties subject to the conditions and limitations hereinafter
prescribed.

(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
district, village, towns, 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
irom the general county funds 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
yperate or acquire, reconstruct and improve such water systems
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 obtain-
ing the approval of such loan and bond issue by the qualified voters
of the county. After receipt of the petition of the board of super-
visors 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 hundred
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.