                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

JURISDICTION OF CIRCUIT COURTS TO ESTABLISH PROJECTS (§ 21-292)

The circuit courts of the several counties and cities of this Commonwealth shall
have jurisdiction, power and authority to establish a levee, or drainage project
or projects, in their several counties and cities and in projects as hereinafter
set out, and to locate and establish levees, drains or canals and cause to be
constructed, straightened, widened or deepened any land drainage, ditch, drain
or watercourse, and to build levees or embankments and erect tide gates and
pumping plants for the purpose of draining and reclaiming wet, swamp or
overflowed lands.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 1737; 1926, p. 604; 1954, c. 642; 1966, c. 203.