CHAPTER 234

An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-801 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the right of a landowner to establish and maintain a sewer when
county does not act.

[H 707]

Approved March 138, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
fait That § 15.1-301 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 15.1-301. Right of landowner when county does not act. —
Upon the failure or refusal of the governing body to establish and main-
tain, or cause to be established and maintained, public sewers as provided
for in the preceding section (§ 15.1-300), any landowner shall have the
right to establish and maintain a sewer from his land along any street,
alley or public highway to the nearest natural water course; provided,
such landowner shall first deposit with the governing body a bond with
security in such penalty as the governing body shall prescribe, not in
excess of the cost of constructing such sewer, conditioned to keep such
sewer in a proper condition to carry off such sewerage as may be emptied
therein; and provided, further, that the sewer proposed to be established
by such landowner shall be approved by the State Board of Health and
with the consent of the county, city or town governing body by ordinance
or resolution.