                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CITY ACQUIRING PLANT WITHIN ONE MILE OF ANOTHER CITY (§ 15.2-2147)

If any city 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 city and whose mains and pipes are laid in the
streets of such other city, and could thereby prevent the other city from
procuring water from the plant of such corporation, the city 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 city
as is furnished to consumers in the city acquiring the property.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 15-751; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-337; 1997, c. 587.