                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONTENTS OF PETITION (§ 21-230)

Every such petition shall pray for the creation of the proposed sanitation
district, and set forth the name of the proposed sanitation district (which
shall include the words &#8220;sanitation district&#8221;), shall fix the
boundaries thereof, shall name the cities and counties and towns which are in
whole or in part to be embraced therein and shall contain an allegation (1) that
the proposed sanitation district includes within its territorial limits
watercourses or streams which are polluted, (2) that no part of the proposed
sanitation district is within the territorial limits of an existing sanitation
district, (3) that the proposed sanitation district is an integral whole and
does not completely surround any territory not included in the proposed or some
existing sanitation district, (4) that the creation of the proposed sanitation
district in accordance with this chapter will provide a means for abating or
preventing the pollution of waters of the proposed sanitation district and will
benefit all the property within the proposed sanitation district, (5) that the
creation of the proposed sanitation district has been approved by the State
Health Commissioner as providing a practical means for abating or preventing the
pollution of the waters of the proposed sanitation district, (6) that the
petition has been approved and the prayer thereof joined in by each city, county
and town which is in whole or in part embraced within the proposed sanitation
district, expressed by resolution adopted by the vote of a majority of the
governing body thereof.

HISTORY: 1946, p. 348; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 1560iii3.