Chap. 372.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as amended, of Chapter
305 of the Acts of Assembly of 1944, approved March 29, 1944, relating to
assessments upon property owners in sanitary districts in certain counties to
provide for certain public improvements. [H B 405}

Approved March 28, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section one, as amended, of chapter three hundred five of
the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred forty-four, approved March
twenty-nine, nineteen hundred forty-four, be amended and re-enacted,
as follows: |

Section 1. Additional powers as to sanitary districts given gov-
erning bodies of certain counties—In addition to any other power and
authority conferred upon it by any general or special law, the governing
body of any county adjoining any county in this State having a density
of population in excess of one thousand inhabitants per square mile is
authorized and empowered to levy assessments upon property owners in
any sanitary district in such county for all or any part of the cost of con-
structing, reconstruction, extending, altering, maintaining and repairing
water and sewerage systems and parts thereof for the use of such sanitary
district, provided that the assessments so imposed shall not be in excess
of the peculiar benefits resulting therefrom to such property owners.

In addition to any other power and authority conferred upon it by
general or special law, the governing body of any county having an area
of more than forty and less than eighty square miles is authorized and
empowered to levy assessments upon property owners in any sanitary
district in such county for all or any part of the cost of constructing, re-
constructing, extending, altering, maintaining and repairing water, drain-
age, maleria control and sewage systems and parts thereof for use of such
sanitary district, provided that the assessments so imposed shall not be in
excess of the peculiar benefits resulting therefrom to such property own-
ers. Any such assessments may, if the governing body so desires, be
graduated according to the number of feet which the property fronts along
the proposed or existing improvement with such exceptions as it deems
necessary in the case of property on which apartment houses or apart-
ments are located.