CODE OF VIRGINIA

ENFORCEMENT OF LIENS FOR WATER OR SEWER CHARGES (§ 15.2-2120)

A. Any lien for water and sewer charges when properly docketed in the
clerk’s office may be enforced in the same manner as taxes due a locality
or by cutting off water or sewer service provided the public health or safety
will not be endangered thereby.

B. Such lien shall not bind or affect a subsequent bona fide purchaser of such
real estate for valuable consideration without actual notice of such lien, until
and except from the time that the amount of such fees and charges are entered in
a judgment lien book in the circuit court for the locality wherein the real
estate or a part thereof is located. It shall be the duty of the circuit court
clerk to cause entries to be made and indexed therein from time to time upon
certification by the locality.

C. Such lien on any real estate may be discharged by the payment to the locality
of the total amount of such lien and the interest which may accrue to the date
of such payment. It shall be the duty of the locality to deliver a certificate
thereof to the person paying the same, and upon presentation thereof, the clerk
having the record of such lien shall mark the entry of such lien satisfied.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 15-717.2; 1950, p. 896; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-296; 1977,
c. 66; 1979, c. 239; 1994, c. 432; 1997, c. 587.