General Provisions

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This is Article 1 of the Code of Virginia, titled “General Provisions.” It is part of Chapter 2 “Sanitary Districts”, which is part of Title 21 “Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts”. It contains 28 laws.

It’s comprised of the following 28 sections.

§ 21-112.22	Definitions
§ 21-113	Creation; inclusion of town in new or enlarged district
§ 21-114	Hearing and notice thereof
§ 21-115	Answer and defense
§ 21-116	Enlargement of sanitary districts
§ 21-116.1	Alteration of boundaries or reduction of area of sanitary districts in certain counties
§ 21-117	Merger of sanitary districts
§ 21-117.1	Abolishing sanitary districts
§ 21-118	Powers and duties of governing body
§ 21-118.1	Authority to acquire property from United States or any agency thereof
§ 21-118.2	Certain counties authorized to use sanitary district funds for certain purposes
§ 21-118.3	Levy and expenditure of taxes in certain counties; validation of expenditures
§ 21-118.4	Certain additional powers of governing body
§ 21-118.5	Unified water supply and sewerage systems for counties and sanitary districts; power of county governing body to fix rates; application of Public Finance Act
§ 21-118.6	Same; application of revenues; tax levy where revenues insufficient
§ 21-118.7	Same; payment to county of revenues held by district
§ 21-118.8	Same; ratification of prior agreements
§ 21-119	Sanitary districts are special taxing districts; nature of improvements; jurisdiction of governing bodies, etc., not affected
§ 21-119.1	Transfer of certain sanitary districts to towns
§ 21-120	In certain cities and counties
§ 21-121	Validation of proceedings
§ 21-121.1	Further validation of proceedings
§ 21-121.2	Additional validation of proceedings
§ 21-121.2:1	Same; bond issues
§ 21-121.3	Powers of districts created under other laws
§ 21-121.4	Powers of boards of supervisors and other governing bodies of counties with respect to sanitary districts
§ 21-121.5	Validation of certain actions
§ 21-121.6	Sanitary districts in certain counties with a water and sewer authority