                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONTRACTS MADE PART OF REPORT (§ 25.1-236)

If the petitioner and the person whose property is being condemned under the
provisions of this chapter shall, before the report of just compensation is
made, (i) enter into any contract in relation to building, operating, or
maintaining the proposed work, or in relation to fencing, culverts, depots,
stations, crossings, sidings, cattle guards, damage from fire, injury to or
destruction of property, real or personal, or like matters, and (ii) introduce
such contract at the trial of the issue of just compensation, such contract
shall be accepted and made a part of the report of the award of just
compensation. Upon confirmation of such report, the contract shall thereafter
run as a covenant with the land or with the interest or estate therein taken.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 4380; Code 1950, §§ 25-36, 25-37; 1962, c. 426, §
25-46.23; 2003, c. 940.