HB3039: Water and sewer charges; adds Town of Blacksburg to localities that may attach lien on real estate.

HOUSE BILL NO. 3039
Offered January 12, 2007
A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-2118 of the Code of Virginia, relating to liens for water and sewer charges.
Patrons-- Nutter and Sickles

Committee Referral Pending

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 15.2-2118 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 15.2-2118. Lien for water and sewer charges and taxes imposed by localities.

The governing body of any county adjoining a city lying wholly within the Commonwealth and which has a population of more than 75,000 according to the 1970 or any subsequent census and any county having a density of population of more than 600 per square mile according to the 1960 or any subsequent census, Botetourt, Culpeper, Cumberland, Franklin, Gloucester, Goochland, Hanover, Orange and any town located therein, Rockingham, Spotsylvania, Stafford, and York Counties and, the Cities of Fairfax, Manassas Park, Newport News, Petersburg, Richmond, and Roanoke, and the Town of Blacksburg may by ordinance provide that taxes or charges hereafter made, imposed, or incurred for water or sewers or use thereof within or outside such county or city shall be a lien on the real estate served by such waterline or sewer. Where residential rental real estate is involved, no lien shall attach (i) unless the user of the water or sewer services is also the owner of the real estate or (ii) unless the owner of the real estate negotiated or executed the agreement by which such water or sewer services were provided to the property.