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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?071+ful+CHAP0676\">676<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":159151,"object_type":"law","relational_id":54567,"identifier":"15.2-5383","token":"15.2\/IV\/53.1\/15.2-5383","url":"\/15.2-5383\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-5383\/","token":"15.2\/IV\/53.1\/15.2-5383","dublin_core":{"Title":"Eminent domain","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-5383","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The <span class=\"dictionary\">Authority<\/span> shall have the right to acquire by eminent domain any real property, including fixtures and improvements, that it deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter after it adopts a resolution declaring that the acquisition of the property described therein is in the public interest and necessary for public use. 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The Authority may exercise the power of eminent domain\npursuant to the provisions of any applicable statutory provision now in force or\nhereafter enacted for the exercise of the power of eminent domain by any\nlocality.\n\t\tProperty already devoted to a public use may be acquired; however, no property\nbelonging to any locality, government, religious corporation, unincorporated\nchurch, or charitable corporation may be acquired without its consent.\n\nHISTORY: 2007, c. 676.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}