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Statutes > Virginia > Title-21 > Chapter-3 > 21-210§ 21-210. Disposal system to be erected by separate district.
Any county or city which elects to construct and operate therein a separatesewage disposal system in accordance with the foregoing provisions of §21-203 shall, within the period hereinafter limited for the construction ofsuch sewage disposal system, construct and provide and have in operation insuch county or city a sewage disposal system sufficient in the opinion of theState Health Commissioner to prevent the pollution of any and all tidalwaters of the district, and any and all tidal waters within the county orcity, from industrial wastes and sewage arising in or discharged from thecounty or city; and the commission is authorized and empowered to proceed byappropriate court action to require the county or city and the governing bodythereof to provide therein such required sewage disposal system. From andafter the expiration of such period, no such county or city nor any publicbody or person therein shall discharge or suffer to be discharged directly orindirectly into any tidal waters of the district, or tidal waters in suchcounty or city, any sewage, industrial wastes or other refuse which may orwill cause or contribute to pollution of any such tidal waters; thisprovision shall be enforceable in the manner provided for by § 21-220. Theperiod for the construction of such sewage disposal system, as hereinabovereferred to, shall be three years from the creation of the district and suchfurther period of time, not exceeding an additional two years, as thecommission, upon application of the governing body of the county or city andafter public hearing which shall be held by the commission upon such publicnotice as the commission may determine to be reasonable, may find to benecessary for completion of such construction by reason of causes which shallnot be or have been within the control of such county or city or thegoverning body thereof.
(1940, p. 621; 1942, p. 603; Michie Code 1942, § 1560kk1.)
