Chap. 196.—An ACT to amend Chapter 460 of the Acts of the. General Assembly
» of 1930, approved March 27, 1930, relating to sanitary districts, by adding
thereto a new section numbered 8, to provide for merging any two or more
sanitary districts heretofore created in any county, and to provide for levying
taxes to pay certain outstanding bonds. ‘[ B bean)

Approved March 11, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That chapter
four hundred and sixty of the Acts of the General Assembly of nineteen
hundred and thirty, approved March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred
and thirty, be amended by adding thereto a new section numbered eight,
as follows:

Section 8. Any two or more sanitary districts heretofore or here-
after created in any county under the provisions of this act, may be
merged into a single district by an order entered by the circuit court of
such county, or the judge thereof in vacation, upon the petition of not less
than fifty qualified voters residing within the boundaries of each of the
districts desiring to be so merged, which order shall prescribe the metes
and bounds and the name or other designation of the single district
created by such merger. From and after the entry of such order, the
board of supervisors of such county shall, as to the single districts so
created, have all the powers and duties, and be subject to all the condi-
tions and limitations prescribed by section three of this act; and all funds
then on hand to the credit of each of the districts so merged shall be
merged into a single fund for the use and benefit of the consolidated
district, unless otherwise ordered by the court or judge upon the hearing
next herein provided for.

Upon the filing of said petition, a hearing shall be had before said
court or judge, after notice as provided by section two of this act, which
notice shall require all interested parties to appear and show cause, if any
they can, (1) why the funds then on hand to the credit of each of the
merged districts should not be merged into a single fund for the purpose
above mentioned; (2) why a special tax should not be levied on all the
property within the limits of the consolidated district, subject to local
taxation, sufficient to pay the interest and create a sinking fund for
payment of the principal at maturity, of any then outstanding bonds
theretofore issued by any one or more of the districts so merged.

- Upon said hearing, such order shall be made and entered as to the
court or judge may seem equitable and proper, concerning the combination
of the funds on hand to the credit of each of the districts so merged, and
the levying of a special tax on all the taxable property within the limits
of the consolidated district, for the purposes hereinabove mentioned ;
provided that such order shall preserve and protect the rights of the
holders of any such outstanding bonds, whose rights, and interests shall
not be limited or affected by any of the provisions of this section.