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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>79542</law_id><section_number>15.2-2147</section_number><catch_line>City acquiring plant within one mile of another city</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-1908</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="15.2">Counties, Cities and Towns</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Powers of Local Government</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="21">Franchises; Sale and Lease of Certain Municipal Public Property; Public Utilities</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="5">Water Supply Systems Generally</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If any <span class="dictionary">city</span> acquires by purchase, lease, condemnation or otherwise, the property, rights and franchises of any private or public service corporation operating a waterworks system, whose plant is located within one mile of the corporate limits of any other <span class="dictionary">city</span> and whose mains and pipes are laid in the streets of such other <span class="dictionary">city</span>, and could thereby prevent the other <span class="dictionary">city</span> from procuring water from the plant of such corporation, the <span class="dictionary">city</span> so acquiring such property shall establish and maintain the same fees for water under similar conditions and circumstances and furnish the same quality and pressure of water, all conditions considered, to all consumers of the same class in the other <span class="dictionary">city</span> as is furnished to consumers in the <span class="dictionary">city</span> acquiring the property.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 15-751; 1962, c. 623, &#xA7; 15.1-337; 1997, c. 587.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
