                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFAULT BY CONTRACTOR (§ 21-408)

If the contractor shall make default and if there shall be a failure to collect
all the damages from such contractor and the sureties upon his bond, and it
shall thereby be necessary to raise a greater sum of money to complete the
drainage works in accordance with the plans, or for any other unavoidable cause
it shall be necessary to raise a greater sum to complete such drainage work, the
board of viewers of the county in which the petition was filed shall prepare new
assessment rolls upon all the lands in the project upon the original basis of
classification of benefits, and increase the same in sufficient sums to equal
the deficit thereby created, and the same shall constitute the new assessment
rolls until changed according to law, and shall be certified to the county
treasurer or treasurers as herein provided.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 1776; 1926, p. 625; 1954, c. 642.