§ 15.2-5214. Eminent domain
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.
(Code 1950, § 32-288; 1950, p. 244; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1528; 1997, c. 587; 2005, c. 928; 2006, c. 673.)
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