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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>59391</law_id><section_number>15.2-5138.1</section_number><catch_line>Enforcement of certain charges when authority does not provide water services</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="IV">Other Governmental Entities</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="51">Virginia Water and Waste Authorities Act</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="4">Financing</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> This section shall apply only to an <span class="dictionary">authority</span> operating in Planning District 1 or Planning District 2. <a id="paragraph-217656" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-5138.1/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If any rates, fees or charges for the use and services of any <span class="dictionary">sewer system</span> acquired or constructed by the <span class="dictionary">authority</span> under the provisions of this chapter are not paid within 60 days after they become due, the <span class="dictionary">authority</span> may require that the <span class="dictionary">owner</span>, tenant or occupant of such premises cease disposing of <span class="dictionary">sewage</span> or industrial wastes originating from or on such premises by discharge directly or indirectly into the <span class="dictionary">sewer system</span> until such rates, fees or charges, with interest, are paid. If such <span class="dictionary">owner</span>, tenant or occupant does not cease such disposal at the expiration of the 60-day period, the <span class="dictionary">authority</span> may require any <span class="dictionary">political subdivision</span>, district, private corporation, board, body or person supplying water to or selling water for use on such premises to cease supplying water to or selling water for use on such premises within five days after the receipt of notice of such delinquency from the <span class="dictionary">authority</span>. If such <span class="dictionary">political subdivision</span>, district, private corporation, board, body or person does not, at the expiration of such five-day period, cease supplying water to or selling water for use on such premises, then the <span class="dictionary">authority</span> may shut off the supply of water to such premises. <a id="paragraph-217657" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-5138.1/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> The water supply to or for any person, or for use on real estate of any person, shall not be shut off or stopped under this section if the State Health Commissioner, upon application of the local board of health or health officer of the <span class="dictionary">locality</span> in which such water is supplied or such real estate is located, has found and certifies to the authorities charged with the responsibility of ceasing to supply or sell such water, or to shut off the supply of such water, that ceasing to supply or shutting off such water supply will endanger the health of such person and the health of others in the <span class="dictionary">locality</span>. <a id="paragraph-217658" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-5138.1/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2008, c. 452.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
