                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

POWERS OF LOCALITIES TO ACQUIRE CERTAIN WATERWORKS SYSTEM (§ 15.2-2146)

For the purpose of providing an adequate water supply or of acquiring,
maintaining or enlarging a waterworks system, including chronically noncompliant
waterworks, as defined in § 32.1-167, any locality, in addition to other powers
conferred by law, may acquire, as provided in § 15.2-1800, within or outside or
partly within and partly outside the limits of the locality, the property, in
whole or in part, whensoever acquired, of any private or public service
corporation operating a waterworks system or chartered for the purpose of
acquiring or operating such a system. Such property shall include its lands,
plants, works, buildings, machinery, pipes, mains, wells, basins, reservoirs and
all appurtenances thereto and its contracts, easements, rights and franchises,
including its franchise to be a corporation, whether such property, or any part
thereof, is essential to the purposes of the corporation or not. However, any
locality condemning property hereunder shall furnish water, at appropriate
rates, to the customers of any water company whose property is condemned. The
provisions of § 25.1-102 shall not apply in the case of condemnation of an
existing water or sewage disposal system in its entirety.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 15-749; 1958, c. 401; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-335; 1966, c.
170; 1987, c. 200; 1997, c. 587; 2003, c. 940; 2007, cc. 648, 774.