21-232 - Hearing and determination; ordering election. - Virginia Statutes

§ 21-232. Hearing and determination; ordering election.

Any person interested may answer the petition and make defense thereto and atsuch hearing all persons interested or desiring to controvert the allegationsof the petition or question the conformity thereof to this article or objectto the creation of the proposed sanitation district shall be heard. If uponsuch hearing the court shall not be satisfied that the allegations of thepetition are sustained and that the petition conforms to the provisions ofthis article, it shall make an order denying and dismissing the petition. Ifupon such hearing the court shall be satisfied that the allegations of thepetition are sustained and that the petition conforms to the provisions ofthis article and that all of the property in the proposed sanitation districtwill be benefited by the creation of the proposed sanitation district andthat the public interest will be served and the public health protected bysuch creation, it shall make an order determining such matters and requiringthe opening of a poll and the taking of the sense of the qualified voters ofthe proposed sanitation district in accordance with § 21-226 on the questionof the creation of the proposed sanitation district. The question sosubmitted shall be "Do you favor the creation of the . . . . . . . . . . . .(inserting name of the proposed sanitation district stated in the saidpetition)?"

(1946, p. 349; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 1560iii3.)