CHAPTER 599

An Act to amend and reenact § 1 of Chapter 359, Acts of Assembly, 1954,
approved April 2, 1954, relating to authority of certain counties to
control use of public property owned or controlled by such counties
for certain purposes without approval of the governing body of such
counties and to provide penalties for violations. rH 710]

Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 1 of Chapter three hundred fifty-nine, Acts of Assembly,
nineteen hundred fifty-four, approved April two, nineteen hundred fifty-
four, be amended and reenacted as follows:
. The governing body of any county with a population of more
than fifty-six thousand five hundred but less than sixty-five thousand in-
habitants, or of any county with a population of more than one hundred
thousand but less than one hundred twenty thousand inhabitants, may by
ordinance require any person, firm, corporation, association, or partner-
ship, whether or not regulated by the State Corporation Commission who
undertakes, for any purpose, to occupy or use any of the streets, avenues,
parks, bridges or any other public places or any public easement of any
description owned or controlled by such county, for the purpose of con-
structing or establishing a water or sewerage system or extending any
part of an existing water or sewerage system, to obtain the consent thereto
of the governing body of the county, or its designated agent, and to make
violations of such ordinance a misdemeanor with each day’s continuance
thereof being a separate offense. Such ordinance may provide that such
occupancy shall be deemed a nuisance and the court or trial justice trying
the case shall have power to cause the nuisance to be abated and to commit
the offenders and all their agents and employees engaged in such offenses to
jail until such order of the court shall be obeyed.

The provisions of such ordinance shall not apply to any water or
sewerage system which has been or shall hereafter be constructed, estab-
lished or extended pursuant to contract entered into prior to the effective
date of such ordinance. .