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This law was first created in 1964. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 378 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. Unfortunately, the 1964 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1972, chapter 733; in 2006, chapter 784<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":76094,"section_number":"36-27.2","catch_line":"Limitations on certain housing authorities; exception","order_by":null,"url":"\/36-27.2\/"},{"id":64498,"section_number":"36-51.1","catch_line":"Requirements for \"conservation plan\" generally","order_by":null,"url":"\/36-51.1\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":208563,"object_type":"law","relational_id":57998,"identifier":"36-50.1","token":"36\/1\/7\/36-50.1","url":"\/36-50.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/36-50.1\/","token":"36\/1\/7\/36-50.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Extension of general powers for actions taken pursuant to a conservation plan","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 36-50.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

In implementing a conservation plan, an authority<\/span> shall have all the rights, powers, privileges<\/span>, and immunities provided in this chapter. However, the power of eminent domain shall not be exercised in connection with a conservation project except to acquire (i) properties designated for use by the public or a public agency in the conservation plan, (ii) properties which are determined by the authority<\/span> to be in violation of the standards for design, construction, maintenance and use of property set out in the conservation plan for the project in which such property is situate, and which have not been made to comply with such standards within one year after a written request to rehabilitate to project standards is given to the owner by the authority<\/span>, (iii) properties as to which voluntary conveyance cannot be effected in the course of the execution of the conservation plan because of the inability of the owners to convey marketable title, or (iv) properties which are infeasible of rehabilitation, blighted properties or properties which inhibit or prevent accomplishment of the purposes of the conservation plan.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nEXTENSION OF GENERAL POWERS FOR ACTIONS TAKEN PURSUANT TO A CONSERVATION PLAN\n(\u00a7 36-50.1)\n\nIn implementing a conservation plan, an authority shall have all the rights,\npowers, privileges, and immunities provided in this chapter. However, the power\nof eminent domain shall not be exercised in connection with a conservation\nproject except to acquire (i) properties designated for use by the public or a\npublic agency in the conservation plan, (ii) properties which are determined by\nthe authority to be in violation of the standards for design, construction,\nmaintenance and use of property set out in the conservation plan for the project\nin which such property is situate, and which have not been made to comply with\nsuch standards within one year after a written request to rehabilitate to\nproject standards is given to the owner by the authority, (iii) properties as to\nwhich voluntary conveyance cannot be effected in the course of the execution of\nthe conservation plan because of the inability of the owners to convey\nmarketable title, or (iv) properties which are infeasible of rehabilitation,\nblighted properties or properties which inhibit or prevent accomplishment of the\npurposes of the conservation plan.\n\nHISTORY: 1964, c. 378; 1972, c. 733; 2006, c. 784.","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}}