                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DISPOSAL SYSTEM TO BE ERECTED BY SEPARATE DISTRICT (§ 21-210)

Any county or city which elects to construct and operate therein a separate
sewage disposal system in accordance with the foregoing provisions of § 21-203
shall, within the period hereinafter limited for the construction of such sewage
disposal system, construct and provide and have in operation in such county or
city a sewage disposal system sufficient in the opinion of the State Health
Commissioner to prevent the pollution of any and all tidal waters of the
district, and any and all tidal waters within the county or city, from
industrial wastes and sewage arising in or discharged from the county or city;
and the commission is authorized and empowered to proceed by appropriate court
action to require the county or city and the governing body thereof to provide
therein such required sewage disposal system. From and after the expiration of
such period, no such county or city nor any public body or person therein shall
discharge or suffer to be discharged directly or indirectly into any tidal
waters of the district, or tidal waters in such county or city, any sewage,
industrial wastes or other refuse which may or will cause or contribute to
pollution of any such tidal waters; this provision shall be enforceable in the
manner provided for by § 21-220. The period for the construction of such sewage
disposal system, as hereinabove referred to, shall be three years from the
creation of the district and such further period of time, not exceeding an
additional two years, as the commission, upon application of the governing body
of the county or city and after public hearing which shall be held by the
commission upon such public notice as the commission may determine to be
reasonable, may find to be necessary for completion of such construction by
reason of causes which shall not be or have been within the control of such
county or city or the governing body thereof.

HISTORY: 1940, p. 621; 1942, p. 603; Michie Code 1942, § 1560kk1.