                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DISCHARGE INTO WATERS OF MATTER CAUSING POLLUTION (§ 21-287)

No county, city, town or other public body, or person shall discharge, or suffer
to be discharged, directly or indirectly into any waters of the district any
sewage, industrial wastes or other refuse which may or will cause or contribute
to pollution of any waters of the district, provided, that this provision shall
be applicable only to such part or parts of the waters of a district as shall be
bounded and described in a notice, published in a newspaper or newspapers
having, in the aggregate, general circulation in all of the counties and cities
within which or bordering upon which such part or parts of the waters of the
district are located, to the effect that the commission has provided facilities
reasonably sufficient in its opinion for the disposal of sewage, which by
discharge from public sewer systems might cause or contribute to pollution of
the bounded and described part or parts of such waters, and that pollution of
the same is forbidden by law. Such a notice shall constitute prima facie
evidence of the existence of facilities sufficient for the disposal of such
sewage. The provisions of this section shall not prohibit the disposal of sewage
and industrial wastes in the manner in which the same is now being disposed of,
or in any other reasonable manner, by any county, city or town, no part of which
constitutes a part of any district, or by any person in any such county, city or
town, no part of which constitutes a part of any district.

HISTORY: 1946, p. 363; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 1560iii22.