21-119 - Sanitary districts are special taxing districts; nature of improvements; jurisdiction of governing bodies, etc., not affected.
§ 21-119. Sanitary districts are special taxing districts; nature ofimprovements; jurisdiction of governing bodies, etc., not affected.
A. Each sanitary district created or purported to be created by an order ofthe circuit court of any county of the Commonwealth, or a judge thereof,heretofore or hereafter made and entered pursuant to any general law of theCommonwealth, is hereby determined to be and is hereby made, from and afterthe date of such creation or purported creation, a special taxing districtfor the purposes for which created; and any improvements heretofore orhereafter made by or for any such district are hereby determined to begeneral tax improvements and of general benefit to all of the property withinthe sanitary district, as distinct from peculiar or special benefits to someor all of the property within the sanitary district.
B. Neither the creation of the sanitary districts as special taxing districtsnor any other provision in this chapter shall in any wise affect theauthority, power and jurisdiction of the respective county governing bodies,sheriffs, treasurers, commissioners of the revenue, circuit courts, clerks,judges, magistrates or any other county, district or state officer over thearea embraced in any such district, nor shall the same restrict or affect inany way any county, or the governing body of any county, from imposing on andcollecting from abutting landowners, or other landowners receiving special orpeculiar benefits, in any such district, taxes or assessments for localpublic improvements as permitted by the Constitution and by other statutes ofthe Commonwealth.
C. Notwithstanding subsections A and B of this section, the board ofsupervisors of Buckingham County, Nottoway County, or Westmoreland County mayimpose on, and collect from, landowners abutting a street being improved bythe sanitary district a user fee for such service. Such fee may be enforcedas provided in § 21-118.4.
(1936, p. 497; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 1560s3; 1997, c. 261; 2005, c. 839;2007, c. 813.)