                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

HEARING AND NOTICE THEREOF (§ 21-114)

Upon the filing of the petition, the governing body of a county shall fix a day
for a hearing on the question of the proposed sanitary district, which hearing
shall embrace a finding of fact of whether creation of the proposed district or
enlargement of the existing district is necessary, practical, fiscally
responsible, and supported by at least 50 percent of persons who own real
property in (i) the proposed district or (ii) in cases of enlargement, the area
proposed to be included in an existing district. All interested persons who
reside in or who own real property in (a) a proposed district or (b) an existing
district in cases of enlargement shall have the right to appear and show cause
why the property under consideration should or should not be included in the
proposed district or enlargement of same at such hearing. Such hearing shall be
subject to minimum standards regarding timeliness; notice of such hearing shall
be given by publication three times in some newspaper of general circulation
within the county to be designated by the governing body, with the first
publication appearing no more than 35 days before and the third publication
appearing no less than seven days before the hearing. No such district shall be
created until the notice has been given and the hearing had.

HISTORY: 1930, p. 1002; 1940, p. 173; Michie Code 1942, § 1560n; 1985, c. 104;
2017, c. 14; 2023, cc. 506, 507; 2024, cc. 225, 242.