                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EMINENT DOMAIN (§ 15.2-5214)

The commission shall have the right to acquire by eminent domain any real
property, including fixtures and improvements, which it deems necessary to carry
out the purposes of this chapter after it adopts a resolution declaring that the
acquisition of the property described therein is in the public interest and
necessary for public use. The commission may exercise the power of eminent
domain pursuant to the provisions of any applicable statutory provisions now in
force or hereafter enacted for the exercise of the power of eminent domain by
any locality.
		Property already devoted to a public use may be acquired; however, no property
belonging to any locality, government, religious corporation, unincorporated
church or charitable corporation may be acquired without its consent.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 32-288; 1950, p. 244; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1528; 1997,
c. 587; 2005, c. 928; 2006, c. 673.