CHAPTER 243

An Act to validate all proceedings in the creation of all sanitary districts
in the State of Virginia, and all proceedings in connection with bond
issues of such sanitary districts. | 897

Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. All proceedings heretofore taken in the creation of sanitary

districts of whatsoever kind in the State of Virginia, whether under

general law or special act, are hereby validated, ratified, approved and

confirmed, and all such districts so created or attempted to be created

thereunder are hereby declared to have been validly created and estab-

te, notwithstanding any defects or irregularities in the creation
ereof.

§ 2. All proceedings heretofore taken and all elections heretofore
held in sanitary districts of whatsoever kind in the State of Virginia,
whether under general law or special act, to provide for, and with respect
to, the contracting of bonded indebtedness and the authorization, issuance,
sale, execution and delivery of bonds by or on behalf of all such sanitary
districts, are hereby validated, ratified, approved and confirmed, not-
withstanding any lack of power of the governing body of the county in
which any such district is located to authorize and issue such bonds, or
to authorize the execution, sale or delivery thereof, and notwithstanding
any defects or irregularities in any such proceedings or elections, or in
such execution, sale or delivery ; and such bonds so issued or to be issued
are and shall be binding, legal, valid and enforceable obligations of any
such sanitary districts, notwithstanding any statutory limitation on the
amount thereof.

§ 3. It is the intention of the General Assembly that this act shall
be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes set out herein, and if
any clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this act shall ever be de-
clared unconstitutional, it shall be deemed severable, and the remainder
of this act shall continue in full force and effect.

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