                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROCEDURE WHEN VALUE OF LAND NOT EQUAL TO FUTURE ASSESSMENTS (§ 21-405)

When the fund in the custody of any county treasurer shall be exhausted in the
payment of annual assessments against such lands, or there shall not be a
sufficient sum to pay the next annual assessment, such treasurer shall
immediately give written notice to that effect to the chairman of the board of
viewers of the county in which the petition was filed, and to the clerk of the
board, and also to the clerk of the circuit court of the county for which he is
treasurer, whereupon the board of viewers for the county in which the petition
was filed shall institute an investigation of the tract or tracts of land to
determine the market value thereof, and if they shall find the market value of
the tract or tracts is not equal to all the future annual assessments to cover
its share of installments of principal and interest on the outstanding bonds,
they shall proceed to make new assessment rolls on all the remaining lands in
the project and increase the sum in sufficient sums to equal the deficit thereby
created, and such new assessment rolls shall constitute the future assessment
rolls until changed, according to law, and shall be certified to the proper
county treasurer or treasurers as herein provided in lieu of the former
assessment rolls.
		However, the tract or tracts of land which have been so sold by any county
treasurer shall continue on the assessment rolls in the name of the new owner,
but reassessed upon the new basis, and the drainage tax collected at the same
time and in the same manner as other lands, so long as the lands may have
sufficient market value out of which to collect the annual drainage tax, and
when such lands shall fail to have such value, or shall be abandoned by the
person claiming title thereto, the board of viewers may omit the same from the
assessment roll; but the lands may in the same manner at any time in the future
be restored to the assessment rolls.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 1776; 1926, p. 624; 1954, c. 642.