Chap. 15.—An ACT to amefd and re-enact Section 3, heretofore amended, of
an act entitled “An act to provide for the creation of sanitary districts in counties
of the State adjoining a city having a population, according to the last preceding
United States census, of one hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants or more;
to prescribe the powers and‘duties of the boards of supervisors of such counties
as to the construction, acquisition, maintenance and operation of water supply,
sewerage, heat, light and power and gas systems in such districts ; and to provide
for the issuance of county bonds ; to provide funds for establishing and operating
such public utilities in said sanitary districts.”, approved March rH we

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Approved February 12, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
three, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled “An act to provide for the
creation of sanitary districts in counties of the State adjoining a city
having a population, according to the last preceding United States census,
of one hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants or more; to prescribe
the powers and duties of the boards of supervisors of such counties as to
the construction, acquisition, maintenance and operation of water supply,
sewerage, heat, light and power and gas systems in such districts; and
to provide for the issuance of county bonds; to provide funds for estab-
lishing and operating such public utilities in said sanitary districts.”, ap-
proved March seventeenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, be amended
and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 3. After the entry of such order creating a sanitary district
of such county, the board of supervisors thereof shall have the following
powers and duties, subject to the conditions and limitations hereinafter
prescribed :

(a) To construct, reconstruct, maintain, alter, improve, add to and to
operate water supply, sewerage, garbage disposal, heat, light, power, gas,
sidewalks and fire-fighting systems, for the use and benefit of the public
in such sanitary district.

(b) To acquire by gift, condemnation, purchase, lease, or otherwise,
and to maintain and operate any such water supply, sewerage, garbage
disposal, heat, light and power and gas and sidewalks and fire-fighting sys-
tems in such district.

(c) Tocontract with any person, firm, corporation or municipality to
construct, establish, maintain, and operate any such water supply, sew-
erage, garbage disposal, heat, light, power, gas, sidewalks and fire-fighting
systems in such districts.

(d) To require owners or tenants of any property in the said district
to connect with any such system or systems, and to contract with the said
owners or tenants for such connections. In order to require owners or ten-
ants of any property in the said district to connect with any such system or
systems the board of supervisors shall have power and authority to adopt
ordinances so requiring said owners or tenants to connect with said sys-
tems, and to use the same, and said board of supervisors shall have power
to provide for a punishment in said ordinance of not exceeding a fifty-
dollar fine for each failure and refusal to so connect with such systems, or
to use the same. Before adopting any such ordinance the board of super-
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visors shall give public notice of the intention to propose the same for
passage by posting hand bill notices of such proposal in three or more
public places in said sanitary district at least ten days prior to the time the
ordinance shall be proposed for passage. Said ordinance shall not become
effective after its passage until ten days like notice has been given by post-
ing copies of such ordinance in three or more public places in said district.
Violations of such ordinance shall be tried before the trial justice court of
such county as is provided for trial of misdemeanors, and with like right
of appeal.

(e) To fix and prescribe the rates of charge for the use of any such
system or systems, and to provide for the collection of such charges. And
to enable the said board to enforce the collection of charges for the use
ef any such systems against the person or persons, firm or corporation
using the same, the said charges when made for the use of any such sys-
tem shall be collectible by distress, levy, garnishment, attachment or other-
wise without recourse to court procedure, except so far as the selected
procedure may require the same. And the board shall have power to desig-
nate.as its agent for the purpose of collection such officer or officers, per-
son or persons as it may determine, and the officer or officers, person or
persons shall be vested with the same power and authority as a sheriff
or constable may have in like procedure.

(f{) To employ and fix the compensation of any technical, clerical, or
other force and help which from time to time, in their judgment may be
deemed necessary for the construction, operation or maintenance of any
such system or systems.

(g) To negotiate and contract with any person, firm, corporation, or
municipality with regard to the connection of any such system or systems,
with any other system or systems now in operation or hereafter to be
established, and with regard to any other matter necessary and proper for
the construction or operation and maintenance of any such system within
the said sanitary district.

(h) To contract for the extension of any such system into territory
outside of said district, and for the use thereof, upon such terms and con-
ditions as said board may from time to time determine upon.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.