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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69805</law_id><section_number>56-21</section_number><catch_line>When work on crossing works of public service corporation to proceed; no injunction to be awarded</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="56">Public Service Companies</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Crossings and Connections</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Upon the failure of the <span class="dictionary">company</span> desiring to make any crossing pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title=" Right of one public service corporation to cross the works of another; cost" href="/56-17/">56-17</a> to <a class="law" title="Contest by company whose works are crossed" href="/56-19/">56-19</a> to receive notice of the suspension of the work on such crossing by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, within thirty days after submission of the plans, specifications and descriptions as required by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Submission of plans for such crossing" href="/56-18/">56-18</a>, or upon the approval or modification of the plans, specifications and descriptions by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, or, if an <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> be taken as aforesaid, upon the approval or modification by the Supreme <span class="dictionary">Court</span> of the plans, specifications and descriptions, and the payment of the proper compensation for <span class="dictionary">damages</span> by the <span class="dictionary">company</span> desiring to cross the works of another <span class="dictionary">company</span>, such <span class="dictionary">damages</span> to be ascertained according to the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> regulating the exercise of the right of eminent domain, work may be commenced immediately, and no <span class="dictionary">order</span> shall be made, and no <span class="dictionary">injunction</span> awarded, by any <span class="dictionary">court</span> or <span class="dictionary">judge</span> to <span class="dictionary">stay</span> the proceedings or <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span> of the work.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 3884.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
