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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>70760</law_id><section_number>15.2-2111</section_number><catch_line>Regulation of sewage disposal or water service</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="15.2">Counties, Cities and Towns</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Powers of Local Government</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="21">Franchises; Sale and Lease of Certain Municipal Public Property; Public Utilities</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">General Provisions for Public Utilities</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any <span class="dictionary">locality</span> may exercise its powers to regulate sewage collection, treatment or disposal service and water service notwithstanding any anticompetitive effect. Such regulation may include the establishment of an exclusive service area for any sewage or water system, including a system owned or operated by the <span class="dictionary">locality</span>, the fixing of rates or charges for any sewage or water service, and the prohibition, restriction or regulation of competition between entities providing sewage or water service.
		No power herein granted shall alter or <span class="dictionary">amend</span> the powers or the duties of any present or future authority created pursuant to the Virginia Water and Waste Authorities Act (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Title of chapter" href="/15.2-5100/">15.2-5100</a> et seq.) nor confer any right or responsibility upon the <span class="dictionary">governing body</span> of any <span class="dictionary">locality</span> which would supersede or be inconsistent with any of the duties or responsibilities of the State Water Control Board.</p></section></text><history>1984, c. 525, &#xA7; 15.1-292.2; 1997, c. 587.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
