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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>354003</law_id><section_number>21-268</section_number><catch_line>Contracts for collection</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="58" identifier="21">Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="4" identifier="4">Sanitation Districts Law of 1946 -- Nontidal Waters</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="4" identifier="4">Fees, Rents and Charges</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any commission, and any <span class="dictionary">county</span>, city or <span class="dictionary">town</span> in whole or in part embraced within the <span class="dictionary">district</span>, are authorized to enter into a <span class="dictionary">contract</span> or <span class="dictionary">contracts</span> on such terms and conditions as such <span class="dictionary">contract</span> or <span class="dictionary">contracts</span> may contain, providing for the collection by such <span class="dictionary">county</span>, city or <span class="dictionary">town</span> and payment over to the commission of the fees, rents or other charges charged or to be charged by the commission to the owners or lessees or tenants of real estate within such <span class="dictionary">county</span>, city or <span class="dictionary">town</span>, or providing for the payment to the commission by such <span class="dictionary">county</span>, city or <span class="dictionary">town</span> of a sum or sums of money in lieu of all or part of the fees, rents and other charges which would otherwise be charged by the commission to the owners or lessees or tenants of real estate within such <span class="dictionary">county</span>, city or <span class="dictionary">town</span>. Such <span class="dictionary">county</span>, city or <span class="dictionary">town</span> is vested with powers to do everything necessary or proper to carry out and perform every such <span class="dictionary">contract</span>, including the same powers with respect to fees, rents and other charges as are conferred by this chapter upon a commission, and to provide for the payment or discharge of any obligation thereunder by the same means and in the same manner as any other of its obligations, except that no tax shall be levied on real estate for such obligation. The commission is authorized to reduce ratably in accordance with such <span class="dictionary">contract</span> the fees, rents and other charges which would otherwise be charged by the commission to the owners or lessees or tenants of real estate within such <span class="dictionary">county</span>, city or <span class="dictionary">town</span>, but nothing in this section or any such <span class="dictionary">contract</span> shall be construed to prevent the commission from charging to and collecting from such owners or lessees or tenants of such real estate, in the same manner as provided for such fees, rents and other charges, any deficiency in any payment agreed to be made by such <span class="dictionary">county</span>, city or <span class="dictionary">town</span>.</p></section></text><history>1946, p. 362; Michie Suppl. 1946, &#xA7; 1560iii20.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
