                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COMMISSIONER OF HIGHWAYS MAY FILE PETITION FOR CONDEMNATION WHEN NO AGREEMENT
CAN BE REACHED; NOTICE OF CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS (§ 33.2-1032)

In the event no agreement can be reached as provided in § 33.2-1031 or whenever
such land is a part or the whole of a cemetery or graveyard owned by persons
unknown or by any person, church, association, corporation, or other legal
entity not having legal authority to make disposition of the same, the
Commissioner of Highways shall petition the court of the city or county in which
the land is situated and in which condemnation proceedings are instituted to
acquire land for the purpose of condemning such land and having the remains
interred in such cemetery or graveyard removed to some suitable repository. To
such petition the owner of the land and next of kin of those interred therein,
if known, shall be made defendants and served with notice. If such owner and
next of kin are unknown, are less than 18 years of age, have been adjudicated
insane or incompetent, or are nonresidents of the Commonwealth, such notice
shall be served in the manner prescribed by Chapter 2 (§ 25.1-200 et seq.) of
Title 25.1.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 33-75.2; 1960, c. 308; 1970, c. 322, § 33.1-134; 2003,
c. 940; 2014, c. 805.