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§ 21-224. Short title - This chapter may be known, designated and cited as the...
§ 21-225. Definitions - Wherever used or referred to in this chapter, unless a...
§ 21-226. Ordering and conduct of elections - Every order made pursuant to this chapter requiring the opening...
§ 21-227. Court proceedings - Wherever in this chapter the circuit court of any county,...
§ 21-228. Territory which may be embraced in district - Any integral body of territory within which are situated rivers,...
§ 21-229. Notice of hearing on petition for creation - Upon the presentation of a petition complying with the requirements...
§ 21-230. Contents of petition - Every such petition shall pray for the creation of the...
§ 21-231. Signatures on petition - Every such petition shall be signed by not less than...
§ 21-232. Hearing and determination; ordering election - Any person interested may answer the petition and make defense...
§ 21-233. Order when election favors establishment - If upon the certificate of the result of the said...
§ 21-234. Exclusion from district of county, city or town voting against establishment - If upon the certification of the results of the election...
§ 21-235. Approval of State Health Commissioner - The State Health Commissioner is authorized, upon being satisfied that...
§ 21-236. Governing bodies may adopt resolutions - The governing body of each city and county and town...
§ 21-237. Creation - In and for each district heretofore or hereafter created pursuant...
§ 21-238. Officers of commission - The commission, at its organization meeting and thereafter at its...
§ 21-239. Compensation and expenses of members - The members of the commission, including the chairman, shall receive...
§ 21-240. Meetings - Regular meetings of the commission shall be held at least...
§ 21-241. Quorum - Four members of the commission shall constitute a quorum, and...
§ 21-242. Suspension or removal of members - Members of the commission may be suspended or removed by...
§ 21-243. Oath and bond of members - Each member of the commission shall, before entering upon the...
§ 21-244. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1970, c. 463.
§ 21-245. Manner of letting contracts - All contracts, except in cases of emergency, over $5,000 that...
§ 21-246. How power of eminent domain exercised - The powers of condemnation or eminent domain conferred on the...
§ 21-247. County, city or town not liable for act of commission - No pecuniary liability of any kind shall be imposed upon...
§ 21-248. Enumeration of powers of commission - Every commission shall have the following powers: 1. To adopt...
§ 21-249. Relief from pollution to be purpose of commission - The purposes of every commission shall be the relief of...
§ 21-250. Acquisition and use of pipes, sewers, plants, stations, etc. - Every commission is authorized and directed to acquire, in the...
§ 21-251. Collection from public sewage systems - The commission is authorized and directed when in the judgment...
§ 21-252. Use of public sewer and disposal facilities - In order to carry out and effectuate the purposes of...
§ 21-253. Use of public places - In order to carry out and effectuate the purposes of...
§ 21-254. Special contracts for disposal of sewage and other wastes - (a) Every commission is authorized to enter into contracts with...
§ 21-255. Approval of disposal methods - The method proposed to be used by a commission for...
§ 21-256. Prohibition of sale or encumbrance of system - Neither the commission nor any of the counties, cities or...
§ 21-257. Agents and employees of commission - The commission is authorized to appoint a general manager for...
§ 21-258. Funds of commission - (a) All moneys of a commission, whether derived from the...
§ 21-259. Accounts and records - Every commission shall keep and preserve complete and accurate accounts...
§ 21-260. Authority to collect fees, rents or other charges - Every commission is hereby authorized and empowered to charge and...
§ 21-261. Uniformity and basis - Such fees, rents and charges being in the nature of...
§ 21-262. Schedule - The commission shall prescribe and from time to time when...
§ 21-263. Time and place of payment - The commission shall likewise fix and determine the time or...
§ 21-264. Effect of failure to pay - In the event that the fees, rents or charges charged...
§ 21-265. Register - The commission shall keep and preserve a complete register, or...
§ 21-266. Appeal from action fixing fees, etc. - From any action of the sanitation commission in prescribing fees,...
§ 21-267. Actions for collection - The commission shall have the right to recover the amount...
§ 21-268. Contracts for collection - Any commission, and any county, city or town in whole...
§ 21-269. Outstanding bonds not to exceed ten million dollars - Bonds of a commission shall at no time be outstanding...
§ 21-270. Election prior to issuance - No bonds shall be issued by a commission, except to...
§ 21-271. Other matters determined by resolution - All other matters relating to the issuing of such bonds,...
§ 21-272. Form and contents - Bonds shall be authorized by resolution of the commission, and...
§ 21-273. How sold - Such bonds may be sold at public or private sale...
§ 21-274. Resolutions may be part of contract with bondholders - Any resolutions of the commission authorizing any bonds may contain...
§ 21-275. Negotiability - Any provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bonds...
§ 21-276. Liability of Commonwealth, county, city or town on bonds - The bonds, notes and other obligations, and any indebtedness, of...
§ 21-277. No personal liability on bonds - Neither the members of the commission, nor any person executing...
§ 21-278. Purchase of bonds by commission - The commission is authorized, out of any funds available therefor,...
§ 21-279. Bonds constitute legal investments - Any bonds issued pursuant to the authority of this chapter...
§ 21-280. Special remedies of bondholders - (a) The provisions of this section shall be applicable to...
§ 21-280.1. Bonds mutilated, lost or destroyed - Should any bond issued by the commission become mutilated or...
§ 21-281. Inviolability of rights and remedies - The Commonwealth does pledge to and agree with the holders...
§ 21-282. Interim certificates - Pending the preparation, execution and delivery of definitive bonds of...
§ 21-283. Plans, maps, etc., to be available to commission - Each county, city or town in whole or in part...
§ 21-284. Payments by county, city or town - Each county, city, town or other public body shall promptly...
§ 21-285. Contracts with counties, cities and towns outside of district - Any commission, and any county, city or town in whole...
§ 21-286. Additional powers conferred on counties, cities and towns - The powers conferred by this chapter on counties, cities and...
§ 21-287. Discharge into waters of matter causing pollution - No county, city, town or other public body, or person...
§ 21-288. Discharge of matter injurious to system - No county, city, town or other public body, or person...
§ 21-289. Jurisdiction - Jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of the two preceding sections...
§ 21-290. Punishment of violations - Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall be...