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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60483</law_id><section_number>21-119</section_number><catch_line>Sanitary districts are special taxing districts; nature of improvements; jurisdiction of governing bodies, etc., not affected</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>21-118.4</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="21">Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Sanitary Districts</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Each sanitary district created or purported to be created by the governing body of a county, heretofore or hereafter made and adopted pursuant to any general <span class="dictionary">law</span> of the Commonwealth, is hereby determined to be and is hereby made, from and after the date of such creation or purported creation, a special taxing district for the purposes for which created; and any improvements heretofore or hereafter made by or for any such district are hereby determined to be general tax improvements and of general benefit to all of the property within the sanitary district, as distinct from peculiar or special benefits to some or all of the property within the sanitary district. <a id="paragraph-221150" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/21-119/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Neither the creation of the sanitary districts as special taxing districts nor any other provision in this chapter shall in any wise affect the authority, power and <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> of the respective county governing bodies, sheriffs, treasurers, commissioners of the revenue, <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">courts</span>, clerks, <span class="dictionary">judges</span>, <span class="dictionary">magistrates</span> or any other county, district or state officer over the area embraced in any such district, nor shall the same restrict or affect in any way any county, or the governing body of any county, from imposing on and collecting from abutting landowners, or other landowners receiving special or peculiar benefits, in any such district, taxes or assessments for local public improvements as permitted by the Constitution and by other <span class="dictionary">statutes</span> of the Commonwealth. <a id="paragraph-221151" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/21-119/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Notwithstanding subsections A and B, the board of supervisors of Buckingham County, Nottoway County, or Westmoreland County may impose on, and collect from, landowners abutting a street being improved by the sanitary district a user fee for such service. Such fee may be enforced as provided in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Certain additional powers of governing body" href="/21-118.4/">21-118.4</a>. <a id="paragraph-221152" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/21-119/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1936, p. 497; Michie Suppl. 1946, &#xA7; 1560s3; 1997, c. 261; 2005, c. 839; 2007, c. 813; 2017, c. 14.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
