                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EMINENT DOMAIN (§ 15.2-5383)

The Authority shall have the right to acquire by eminent domain any real
property, including fixtures and improvements, that 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 Authority may exercise the power of eminent domain
pursuant to the provisions of any applicable statutory provision 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: 2007, c. 676.