CODE OF VIRGINIA

COLLECTION OF RATES, FEES AND CHARGES (§ 56-264.1)

In the event that the rates, fees or charges charged by any private sewage
disposal system company for the services and facilities of any sewage disposal
system or sewer improvements by or in connection with any real estate or other
property served shall not be paid as and when due, the owner, tenant or
occupant, as the case may be, of such property shall, until such rates, fees and
charges shall be paid, cease to dispose of sewage or industrial wastes
originating from or on such property by discharge thereof directly or indirectly
into the sewerage system, and if such owner, tenant or occupant shall not cease
such disposal within two months thereafter, it shall be the duty of each county,
city, town or other public corporation, board or body, supplying water to or
selling water for use on, such property, within five days after receipt of
notice of such facts from the private sewage disposal system company to cease
supplying water to, and selling water for use on, such property. If such county,
city, town or other public corporation, board or body, shall not within such
time cease supplying water to, and selling water for use on, such property the
private sewage disposal system company may disconnect such property from such
sewage disposal system or sewer improvements, and for such purposes may enter on
any lands, waters and premises of such county, city, town or other public
corporation, board or body. The county, city, town or other public corporation,
board or body supplying water to or selling water for use on such property may
establish a reasonable fee for discontinuing such service and shall establish
administrative regulations to insure proper notice to the customer, to provide
for reestablishment of service and to protect it against liability for action
taken pursuant hereto.

HISTORY: 1976, c. 405.