Any person, including municipal corporations, that proposes to establish a sewage system consisting of pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, force mains or sewerage treatment plants, or any of them, or an extension of any existing system which is designed to serve three or more connections and used for conducting or treating sewage, as that term is defined in Chapter 3.1 (§ 62.1-44.2 et seq.) of Title 62.1, to serve or to be capable of serving three or more connections shall, at least sixty days prior to commencing construction thereof, notify in writing the governing body of the county in which such sewage system is to be located and shall appear at a regular meeting thereof and notify such governing body in person. However, a town proposing to construct or expand a sewage system shall not be required to provide notice in writing or in person to a county if the county itself does not operate a sewage system or provide sewerage services.
In any county having a population of more than 70,000 according to the 1950 or any subsequent census or a county adjoining a city having a population of 230,000 or more according to the 1950 or any subsequent census, no extension of an existing system for the purpose of serving three or more connections shall be made by any person, firm or corporation, other than a municipal corporation, until a plan of such proposed extension, with proof of capacity to serve, has been filed with, and a permit for the extension has been obtained from, the sanitation engineer or other county official, if any, designated therefor by the board of supervisors.
Code 1950, § 15-739.7; 1954, c. 382; 1956, c. 655; 1958, c. 284; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-326; 1974, c. 246; 1990, c. 501; 1997, c. 587.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns
Chapter 21 - Franchises; Sale and Lease of Certain Municipal Public Property; Public Utilities
§ 15.2-2100. Restrictions on selling certain municipal public property and granting franchises
§ 15.2-2101. Ordinance proposing grant of franchise, etc., to be advertised
§ 15.2-2102. How bids received and to whom franchise awarded
§ 15.2-2103. Award when no satisfactory bid received
§ 15.2-2103.1. Solar services agreements; nondisclosure of proprietary information
§ 15.2-2104. Bond of person awarded franchise, etc.
§ 15.2-2105. How amendments made to franchise, etc.; notice required
§ 15.2-2105.1. Granting franchises for operation of a vehicular ferry transportation system
§ 15.2-2106. Powers of court to enforce obedience by mandamus, etc.
§ 15.2-2107. Persons occupying or using streets, etc., contrary to law
§ 15.2-2108.1. Regulation of open video systems
§ 15.2-2108.1:1. Franchise fees and public rights-of-way fees on cable operators
§ 15.2-2108.3. Scope of article
§ 15.2-2108.4. Limitations on providing cable television services
§ 15.2-2108.5. Preliminary public hearing; feasibility consultant
§ 15.2-2108.6. Feasibility study on providing cable television services
§ 15.2-2108.7. Public hearings on feasibility study; notice
§ 15.2-2108.9. Enterprise funds for cable television services
§ 15.2-2108.10. Bonding authority
§ 15.2-2108.11. General operating limitations
§ 15.2-2108.12. Eminent domain
§ 15.2-2108.13. Quality of service standards
§ 15.2-2108.15. Consumer complaints
§ 15.2-2108.17. Antitrust immunity
§ 15.2-2108.20. Authority to grant negotiated cable franchises and regulate cable systems
§ 15.2-2108.21. Ordinance cable franchises
§ 15.2-2108.22. Regulation of fees, rates and services; penalties
§ 15.2-2108.23. Regulation of rights-of-way; fees
§ 15.2-2108.31. Article construed
§ 15.2-2108.32. Application of article to certain localities
§ 15.2-2109.1. Prescriptive easements for provision of water and sewer services
§ 15.2-2109.2. Mutual aid agreements for power and natural gas
§ 15.2-2109.3. Provision of natural gas distribution service within counties
§ 15.2-2110. Mandatory connection to water and sewage systems in certain counties
§ 15.2-2111. Regulation of sewage disposal or water service
§ 15.2-2112. Agreements by political subdivisions for sewage or water service
§ 15.2-2113. Connections of fire suppression systems
§ 15.2-2114. Regulation of stormwater
§ 15.2-2114.01. Local Stormwater Management Fund; grant moneys
§ 15.2-2114.1. Car-washing fundraiser
§ 15.2-2115. Purchase of gas, electric and water plants operating in contiguous territory
§ 15.2-2117. Contracts with sewerage or water purification company, etc.
§ 15.2-2118. Lien for water and sewer charges and taxes imposed by localities
§ 15.2-2118.1. Lien for gas utilities charges and taxes imposed by localities
§ 15.2-2119. Fees and charges for water and sewer services provided to a property owner
§ 15.2-2119.1. Credit for excessive water and sewer charges
§ 15.2-2119.2. Discounted fees and charges for certain low-income, elderly, or disabled customers
§ 15.2-2119.3. Sustainable infrastructure financial assistance
§ 15.2-2120. Enforcement of liens for water or sewer charges
§ 15.2-2122. Localities authorized to establish, etc., sewage disposal system; incidental powers
§ 15.2-2123. Sewage treatment plants to include certain capability
§ 15.2-2124. Contracts between localities as to sewers, pumping stations, etc., to prevent pollution
§ 15.2-2125. Board, etc., for supervision of such works
§ 15.2-2126. Notice to governing body required prior to construction
§ 15.2-2127. Disapproval of system by governing body; failure to disapprove within seventy days
§ 15.2-2129. Contents of notice to governing body; further information
§ 15.2-2130. Extensions to systems
§ 15.2-2131. Article not applicable to hotel corporations
§ 15.2-2132. Noncompliance with article; separate offense
§ 15.2-2133. Penalty; enjoining violation
§ 15.2-2137. Special court; hearing and decision
§ 15.2-2138. Dispute between jurisdictions; additional parties
§ 15.2-2139. Special court; costs
§ 15.2-2140. Dispute between jurisdictions; appeals
§ 15.2-2143. Water supplies and facilities
§ 15.2-2144. Inspection of water supplies
§ 15.2-2145. Sale of water and use of streets by one city in another
§ 15.2-2146. Powers of localities to acquire certain waterworks system
§ 15.2-2147. City acquiring plant within one mile of another city
§ 15.2-2148. Contracts for water supply
§ 15.2-2149. Notice to county and State Board of Health required prior to construction
§ 15.2-2150. When approval of State Board of Health not required
§ 15.2-2152. Contents of notice to governing body; further information
§ 15.2-2153. Extensions to systems
§ 15.2-2154. Article not applicable to hotel corporations
§ 15.2-2155. Noncompliance with article; separate offenses
§ 15.2-2156. Penalty; enjoining violation
§ 15.2-2157. Onsite sewage systems when sewers not available; civil penalties
§ 15.2-2157.1. Permit for onsite sewage disposal system installation in certain counties
§ 15.2-2158. Fee for street lighting