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ORDINANCE NO. 12-14( )
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 14, SUBDIVISION OF LAND, ARTICLE I, GENERAL
PROVISIONS, ARTICLE III, SUBDIVISION PLAT REQUIREMENTS AND DOCUMENTS TO BE
SUBMITTED, AND ARTICLE IV, ON-SITE IMPROVEMENTS AND DESIGN, OF THE CODE OF
THE COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE, VIRGINIA
BE IT ORDAINED By the Board of Supervisors of the County of Albemarle, Virginia, that Chapter 14,
Subdivision of Land, Article I, General Provisions, Article III, Subdivision Plat Requirements and
Documents to be Submitted, and Article IV, On-site Improvements and Design, of the Code of the
County of Albemarle, Virginia, are hereby amended and reordained as follows:
By Amending:
Sec. 14-106 Definitions
Sec. 14-309 Soil evaluations
By Amending and Renaming:
Sec. 14-310 Health director approval of individual private wells and/or septic systems
Sec. 14-415 Central water supplies and sewerage systems
Sec. 14-416 Individual private wells and septic systems
Chapter 14. Subdivision of Land
Article I. General Provisions
Sec. 14-106 Definitions
The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this chapter:
Alternative onsite sewage system. The term "alternative onsite sewage system" means a treatment works
approved by the Virginia Department of Health that is not a conventional onsite sewage system and does
not result in a point source discharge.
Conventional onsite sewage system. The term "conventional onsite sewage system" means a treatment
works approved by the Virginia is Department of Health consisting of one or more septic tanks with rg avity.
camped, or siphoned conveyance to a gravity distributed subsurface drainfield.
Onsite sewage system. The term "onsite sewage system" means a conventional onsite sewage system or
an alternative onsite sewage s. sy tem.
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Subsurface drainfield. The term "subsurface drainfield" means a system installed within the soil and
designed to accommodate treated sewage from a treatment works.
Treatment works. The term "treatment works" means any device or system used in the storage, treatment.
disposal or reclamation of sewage or combinations of sewage and industrial wastes, including but not
limited to pumping, power and other equipment and appurtenances, septic tanks, and any works,
including land, that are or will be (i) an integral part of the treatment process or (ii) used for ultimate
disposal of residues or effluents resulting from such treatment.
Article III. Subdivision Plat Requirements and Documents to be Submitted
Division 2. Documents and Information to be Submitted with Preliminary or Final Plat
Sec. 14-309 Soil evaluations.
The subdivider shall submit to the agent with each final plat the results of percolation tests or
other methods of soil evaluation used to determine the suitability of the soil for septie systems wit'
eeiwe*6eaa1 drat fields, if ptie systems subsurface drainfields, if conventional onsite sewage systems
are proposed to be used in the development of the subdivision, and the results are requested by the agent.
These results shall be forwarded by the agent to the health director.
(9-5-96, 8-28-74; 1988 Code, § 18-23; Ord. 98-A(1), 8-5-98; Ord. 05-14(1), 4-20-05, effective 6-20-05)
State law reference -Na. Code §§ 15.2-2241(3), 15.2-2262.
Sec. 14-310 Health director approval of individual private wells and/or septic systems, t nit
sewage systems.
If required as a condition of final plat approval, a final plat shall not be approved if individual
private wells are proposed for the subdivision until written approval has been received from the health
director by the agent. A final plat shall not be approved if septie systems onsite sewage systems are
proposed for the subdivision until written approval has been received from the health director by the
agent, provided further that if the subdivision will be served by conventional onsite sewage systems as
follows:
A. The health director shall determine the suitability of the soil of each lot of the subdivision
for which septic systems with a oetwention4dr-adnfie conventional onsite sewage systems will be
constructed, and shall submit his opinion to the agent.
B. The health director may require as a condition of his approval of the installation of suis
systems conventional onsite sewage. ,
the soptie systems that individual lots be graded and drained so as to assure the effective removal of
surface water from each lot.
C. Special lots shall not be subject to this section unless the special lot is created for a water
supply or waste disposal purpose.
(Ord. 98-A(1), 8-5-98; Ord. 05-14(1), 4-20-05, effective 6-20-05; Ord. 11-14(1), 6-1-11)
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State law reference--Va. Code §§ 15.2-2242(2), 15.2-2262.
Article IV. On -Site Improvements and Design
Division 3. Water, Sewers and Other Improvements
Sec. 14-415 Central water supplies and sewerage systems.
A subdivision for which public water and/or sanitary sewerage service is not reasonably available
as provided in section 14-414, and which will have twenty-five (25) or more lots of two (2) acres or less,
may be served by a central water supply or central sewerage system, or both, if authorized by the board of
supervisors under chapter 16 of the Code, as follows:
14A_. The design and construction of each central water system and central sewerage system
required by this section shall be approved by the Virginia Department of Health, or its local office, the
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, and the board of supervisors. Each system shall
complement or supplement existing or proposed county utilities to the extent that the agent finds existing
public utilities to be inadequate.
FB. Neither a central water system nor a central sewerage system shall be required a
feet;s4division whose net aver -age lot size is greater- than si*t-y thousa-ad (60,000) square if the
subdivider establishes to the satisfaction of the county engineer that the soils and parent materials of all of
the lots created for the purpose of transfer of ownership are such that waste disposal methods for the
entire property are satisfactory to the health director, and that no well pollution can occur from the
proposed lot configuration.
PC. No final plat for a subdivision served by a central water system and/or a central sewerage
system shall be approved until the requirements of Chapter 21 of Title 15.2 of the Code of Virginia have
been satisfied.
(9-5-96, 8-28-74; 1988 Code, § 18-23; Ord. 98-A(1), 8-5-98, § 14-517; Ord. 05-14(1), 4-20-05, effective
6-20-05)
State law reference--Va. Code § 15.2-2241(4).
Sec. 14-416 Individual private wells and septie system onsite sewage systems.
A subdivision for which public water and/or public sewerage service is not reasonably available
as provided in section 14-414, and for which a central water supply and/or a central sewerage system is
not authorized under section 14-415, shall be served by individual private wells or septi, systems ha -vin
onsite sewage systems, or both, and shall meet all requirements of the health
department and be approved by the health director.
(§ 18-23 (part), 9-5-96, 8-28-74; § 18-27, 9-5-96, 8-28-74; 1988 Code, §§ 18-23, 18-27; Ord. 98-A(1), 8-
5-98, § 14-518; Ord. 05-14(1), 4-20-05, effective 6-20-05)
State law reference--Va. Code § 15.2-2241(3).
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I, Ella W. Jordan, do hereby certify that the foregoing writing is a true, correct copy of an Ordinance duly
adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Albemarle County, Virginia, by a vote of to , as
recorded below, at a regular meeting held on
Clerk, Board of County Supervisors
Ave Nay
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Mr. Boyd
Mr. Dumler
Ms. Mallek
Mr. Rooker
Mr. Snow
Mr. Thomas
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