15.2-2126 - Notice to governing body required prior to construction. - Virginia Statutes

§ 15.2-2126. Notice to governing body required prior to construction.

Any person, including municipal corporations, that proposes to establish asewage system consisting of pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, forcemains or sewerage treatment plants, or any of them, or an extension of anyexisting system which is designed to serve three or more connections and usedfor conducting or treating sewage, as that term is defined in Chapter 3.1 (§62.1-44.2 et seq.) of Title 62.1, to serve or to be capable of serving threeor more connections shall, at least sixty days prior to commencingconstruction thereof, notify in writing the governing body of the county inwhich such sewage system is to be located and shall appear at a regularmeeting thereof and notify such governing body in person. However, a townproposing to construct or expand a sewage system shall not be required toprovide notice in writing or in person to a county if the county itself doesnot operate a sewage system or provide sewerage services.

In any county having a population of more than 70,000 according to the 1950or any subsequent census or a county adjoining a city having a population of230,000 or more according to the 1950 or any subsequent census, no extensionof an existing system for the purpose of serving three or more connectionsshall be made by any person, firm or corporation, other than a municipalcorporation, until a plan of such proposed extension, with proof of capacityto serve, has been filed with, and a permit for the extension has beenobtained from, the sanitation engineer or other county official, if any,designated therefor by the board of supervisors.

(Code 1950, § 15-739.7; 1954, c. 382; 1956, c. 655; 1958, c. 284; 1962, c.623, § 15.1-326; 1974, c. 246; 1990, c. 501; 1997, c. 587.)