CHAPTER 212

An Act to amend and reenact § 21-29, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to soil conservation districts. CH 348]

Approved March 9, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1, That § 21-29, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 21-29. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall examine the
application and statement and, if he finds that the name proposed for
the district is not identical with that of any other soil conservation
district of this State or so nearly similar as to lead to confusion or un-
certainty, he shall receive and file them and shall record the application
in an appropriate book of record in his office. If the Secretary of the
Commonwealth shall find that the name proposed for the district is
identical with that of any other soil conservation district of this State,
or so nearly similar as to lead to confusion and uncertainty, he shall
certify such fact to the State Soil Conservation Committee, which shall
thereupon submit to the Secretary of the Commonwealth a new name
for the district, which shall not be subject to such defects. Upon receipt
of such new name, free of such defects, the Secretary of the Common-
wealth shall record the application, with the name so modified, in an
appropriate book of record in his office. When the application and state-
ment have been made, filed and recorded, as herein provided, the district
shall constitute a governmental subdivision of this State and a public
body corporate and politic. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
make and issue to the supervisors a certificate, under the lesser seal of
the Commonwealth, of the due organization of the district and shall
record such certificate with the application and statement. The boundaries
of such district shall include the territory as determined by the Committee
as aforesaid, but shall not include any area included within the boundaries
of another soil conservation district organized under the provisions of
this chapter, except in the case of the division of an existing district
as provided in this article. * The name of any soil conservation district
may be changed if a petition for such change is subscribed by twenty-five
or more landowners from each county comprising the district and adopted
by resolution of the supervisors at any regular meeting. The supervisors
shall submit a copy of such resolution to the Committee and, if the
Committee concurs, it shall present the resolution, together with a state-
ment certifying its concurrence, to the Secretary of the Commonwealth
who, if it be free from such defects as outlined herein, shall file the
resolution and issue a new (or amended) certificate of organization.

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