                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EFFECT OF FAILURE TO PAY (§ 21-264)

In the event that the fees, rents or charges charged by the commission for the
use and services of the sewage disposal system by or in connection with any real
estate shall not be paid as and when due, then and at that time interest shall
begin to accrue thereon at the rate of one per centum per month and the owner,
lessee or tenant, as the case may be of such real estate shall, until such fees,
rents and charges shall be paid with such interest to the date of payment, cease
to dispose of sewage or industrial waste originating from or on such real estate
by discharge thereof directly or indirectly into the sewage disposal system, and
if such owner, lessee or tenant shall not cease such disposal within two months
thereafter it shall be the duty of each county, city, town and other public
corporation, board or body supplying water to or selling water for use on, such
real estate, within five days after receipt of notice of such facts from the
commission, to cease supplying water to, and selling water for use on, such real
estate. If such county, city, town or other public corporation, board or body
shall not within such time cease supplying water to, and selling water for use
on, such real estate, the commission may shut off the supply of water to such
real estate and for such purpose, may enter on any lands, waters and premises of
such county, city, town or other public corporation, board or body, or of any
person. The water supply to or for any person, or for use on real estate of any
person, shall not be shut off or stopped under the provisions of this section,
if the State Health Commissioner, upon application of the local board of health
or health officer of the county, city or town wherein such water is supplied or
such real estate is located, shall have found and shall certify to the
authorities charged with the responsibility of ceasing to supply or sell such
water, or to shut off the supply of such water, that ceasing to supply or
shutting off such water supply will endanger the health of such person and the
health of others in such county, city or town.

HISTORY: 1946, p. 354; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 1560iii7.