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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>59208</law_id><section_number>16.1-319</section_number><catch_line>Acquisition of property by commission</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="16.1">Courts Not of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="11">Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="13">Facilities for Detention and Other Residential Care</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The commission shall have the right to acquire by eminent domain any real property, including fixtures and improvements, which it may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this article, after the adoption by it of a resolution declaring that the acquisition of the property described therein is in the public interest and necessary for public use; provided, however, that no such real property shall be so acquired or such facility established within the territorial limits of such political subdivision without the approval, after public <span class="dictionary">hearing</span>, of the governing body of such political subdivision.
		Subject to the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Condemnation of property of corporations possessing power of eminent domain" href="/25.1-102/">25.1-102</a>, property already devoted to a public use may be acquired, provided, that no property belonging to any county or city, religious corporation, unincorporated church or charitable corporation may be acquired without its consent.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 16.1-202.6; 1977, c. 559; 2003, c. 940; 2006, c. 673.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
