Any person interested may answer the petition and make defense thereto and at such hearing all persons interested or desiring to controvert the allegations of the petition or question the conformity thereof to this article or object to the creation of the proposed sanitation district shall be heard. If upon such hearing the court shall not be satisfied that the allegations of the petition are sustained and that the petition conforms to the provisions of this article, it shall make an order denying and dismissing the petition. If upon such hearing the court shall be satisfied that the allegations of the petition are sustained and that the petition conforms to the provisions of this article and that all of the property in the proposed sanitation district will be benefited by the creation of the proposed sanitation district and that the public interest will be served and the public health protected by such creation, it shall make an order determining such matters and requiring the opening of a poll and the taking of the sense of the qualified voters of the proposed sanitation district in accordance with § 21-226 on the question of the creation of the proposed sanitation district. The question so submitted shall be "Do you favor the creation of the........… (inserting name of the proposed sanitation district stated in the said petition)?"
1946, p. 349; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 1560iii3.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts
Chapter 4 - Sanitation Districts Law of 1946 -- Nontidal Waters
§ 21-226. Ordering and conduct of elections
§ 21-228. Territory which may be embraced in district
§ 21-229. Notice of hearing on petition for creation
§ 21-230. Contents of petition
§ 21-231. Signatures on petition
§ 21-232. Hearing and determination; ordering election
§ 21-233. Order when election favors establishment
§ 21-234. Exclusion from district of county, city or town voting against establishment
§ 21-235. Approval of State Health Commissioner
§ 21-236. Governing bodies may adopt resolutions
§ 21-238. Officers of commission
§ 21-239. Compensation and expenses of members
§ 21-242. Suspension or removal of members
§ 21-243. Oath and bond of members
§ 21-245. Manner of letting contracts
§ 21-246. How power of eminent domain exercised
§ 21-247. County, city or town not liable for act of commission
§ 21-248. Enumeration of powers of commission
§ 21-249. Relief from pollution to be purpose of commission
§ 21-250. Acquisition and use of pipes, sewers, plants, stations, etc.
§ 21-251. Collection from public sewage systems
§ 21-252. Use of public sewer and disposal facilities
§ 21-253. Use of public places
§ 21-254. Special contracts for disposal of sewage and other wastes
§ 21-255. Approval of disposal methods
§ 21-256. Prohibition of sale or encumbrance of system
§ 21-257. Agents and employees of commission
§ 21-259. Accounts and records
§ 21-260. Authority to collect fees, rents or other charges
§ 21-261. Uniformity and basis
§ 21-263. Time and place of payment
§ 21-264. Effect of failure to pay
§ 21-266. Appeal from action fixing fees, etc.
§ 21-267. Actions for collection
§ 21-268. Contracts for collection
§ 21-269. Outstanding bonds not to exceed ten million dollars
§ 21-270. Election prior to issuance
§ 21-271. Other matters determined by resolution
§ 21-274. Resolutions may be part of contract with bondholders
§ 21-276. Liability of Commonwealth, county, city or town on bonds
§ 21-277. No personal liability on bonds
§ 21-278. Purchase of bonds by commission
§ 21-279. Bonds constitute legal investments
§ 21-280. Special remedies of bondholders
§ 21-280.1. Bonds mutilated, lost or destroyed
§ 21-281. Inviolability of rights and remedies
§ 21-282. Interim certificates
§ 21-283. Plans, maps, etc., to be available to commission
§ 21-284. Payments by county, city or town
§ 21-285. Contracts with counties, cities and towns outside of district
§ 21-286. Additional powers conferred on counties, cities and towns
§ 21-287. Discharge into waters of matter causing pollution