                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SANITARY DISTRICTS ARE SPECIAL TAXING DISTRICTS; NATURE OF IMPROVEMENTS;
JURISDICTION OF GOVERNING BODIES, ETC., NOT AFFECTED (§ 21-119)

A. 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 law 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.

B. 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 jurisdiction of the respective county governing bodies, sheriffs,
treasurers, commissioners of the revenue, circuit courts, clerks, judges,
magistrates 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 statutes of the
Commonwealth.

C. 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; 21-118.4.

HISTORY: 1936, p. 497; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 1560s3; 1997, c. 261; 2005, c.
839; 2007, c. 813; 2017, c. 14.